Lupita Nyong'o Quotes

My day is spent hiding from people.

I spent much of my life hiding.

I'll close my eyes really, really tight and make you all go away.

I usually feel that I prefer to hide from people.

I'm actually quite a shy person and it's becoming clearer to me. Sometimes I would like to disappear, maybe only for an hour.

I just don't like to go out and deal with the real world. It's scary.

I've never liked the recognition, the questions, the publicity. I have often felt like running away and hiding.

There is no problem so big it cannot be run away from.

We moved around so much when I was young. I was very shy, so shy that I would walk across the street if I saw someone I knew rather than deal with talking to them.

I'm a sponge. I sometimes don't want to go out of my house because it's like, 'Who's going to make me cry today?'

I started to wear the sunglasses all the time at school, hiding behind them... I'd walk down the hallways, practically hugging the wall, dragging my head against it like I was crazy.

I tend to really duck down and make myself smaller than I already am.

Sometimes I want to bury myself in bed, and I don't want anyone to know anything about me, and I don't want anyone to judge me.

I've been hiding from the real world all my life.

Oh, no, I was afraid of that! I'd better go and hide.

He hunched his shoulders and tried to make himself smaller in the seat. He wanted to disappear, to fade away, not to exist.

Hide until everybody goes home. Hide until everybody forgets about you. Hide until everybody dies.

I'm shy. I'm not sociable. I'm very insecure.

That idea of escapism... these words could sum up my life.

I'm so shy now I wear sunglasses everywhere I go.

I have lived so long among people who do not understand me, been so long accustomed to refrain and disguise myself for fear of being laughed at, that I have grown as difficult to come at as a snail in a shell; and what is worse, I cannot come out of my shell when I wish it.

You already feel unsure of yourself, and then you see your worst fears in print. It really knocked me - which is why, I think, I was working, working, working, because I was trying to run away from the fact that I thought I couldn't do it.

I always feel like I'm missing out on something, that someone is having more fun than I am, so I take measures to make sure that is impossible.

Man's loneliness is but his fear of life.

I'm disappearing, avoiding most things.