Lupita Nyong'o Quotes

I never wanted to work with celebrities. I have no interest. I don't really care about their egos and their publicists.

Movie stars need to retain some of that mystique if you are a big movie star.

I hate all the red carpet stuff. It's weird, because it's part of what's expected of you now.

I understand acting and I understand actors. I don't really understand the world of celebrity. That's just bizarre. Those sorts of elements I'm at sea with.

I'm not into the whole showbiz scene.

I find it strange that actors are on the covers of magazines.

Actors are seen as celebrities, but they're just real people with families.

We don't play the celebrity business in our family.

There are those, I think, who are attracted to the glitz of celebrity life. I am not one of them.

I want to speak directly with a star, not her stylist.

I don't do celebrity.

Being an actress in Hollywood and being a celebrity tend to feed into one another, but just being a celebrity wouldn't really be interesting to me.

Look, at the same time that I don't want to be a celebrity, I understand that when you make movies you put yourself out in the public eye. I'd be a baby and a fool to be like, 'Why are there cameras taking pictures of me?' when I'm on a billboard for a movie. I think that's a very absurd concept.

I think what's interesting about the whole paparazzi thing is that unless you're Brad Pitt or Madonna, you can pretty much avoid it. You know when you're going to an opening that you will be photographed, so that's fine. And you know the restaurants that have paparazzi, so you don't go to them.

Los Angeles is such a town of show business, and I'm a terrible celebrity. I find it difficult - it's the beast that must be fed. There's this big wheel of pictures and articles that goes around, and you get pinned on it.

I'm not someone who likes to be in the whole Hollywood tabloids.

I don't mind doing the whole red carpet thing when I have to when it comes to publicizing a movie. But besides that, I don't like those kinds of things at all. Celebrity status is not really something that appeals to me.

In Hollywood you always feel a bit like a hake. The publicists march people up and down in front of you and they interview you... You feel like the turbot and the sea-bream go by, and you're the hake.

It's hard to find normal celebrities.

I'm not especially interested in actors or their life, double, triple identities and all that.

I'm not somebody who no matter where I go there are paparazzi or any of that nonsense. But I have a little window into that world and I can enter it and dance around. I want to be the audience's ticket into the party.

A reporter discovers, in the course of many years of interviewing celebrities, that most actors are more attractive behind a spotlight than over a spot of tea.

The thing about many celebrities - not all - is that they're fantastic actors.

I hate red-carpet photographs!

Look, I'm not a blockbuster star.