Lupita Nyong'o Quotes

I love being famous - it's phenomenal.

I do get recognised, but not as much as someone like Dev Patel or Nicole Kidman.

Celebrity is a word I take great umbrage with. I'm actively anti-celebrity.

I don't care about awards and all the attention being a 'celebrity' gets you. It's just part of the job.

I was never about being a celebrity. Maybe when I was very young, but that goes away quickly. I've met almost every famous person I want to meet.

I never, ever see myself as a celebrity or famous.

When you have celebrity, it's a whole different thing than being an artist.

I still can't believe it when people say I am a celebrity.

I want to make 'People' magazine's 50 Most Beautiful People.

I love the fame, I love the attention, and I love the perks.

What we forget is that the Academy is a star-maker, or it reinforces the stardom of people.

I don't want to sound bigheaded or anything, but when you reach a certain level of recognition or fame, or whatever you want to call it, when you're young the first couple of years you think, 'Oh, this is fun.'

As a young girl, I used to dream of giving an interview. You dream of stardom as a kid. People think they don't want to be stars. Everyone wants to be a star! That's the truth. Even grownups; they pretend they don't want to be one and don't care. But everyone wants to.

I'm so not a celebrity.

I love being recognized, I love people liking me, I love the fact that people scream when I go out. I think I'll miss all that when it's taken away.

I never had that star aura.

I'm not trying to be a celebrity, Justin Timberlake kinda guy.

There's no such thing as unwanted attention for an actor.

I know it's a cliche but I never wanted to be famous. I don't believe anybody wants to be famous.

I don't know if I'm a heartthrob or if I want to be one! I heard that I get the most fan mail. It's very flattering, and lovely to be popular with the public.

But I am very grateful for my success, and with success, of course, comes a whole lot of celebrity.

Celebrity, to me, is not a thing to seek.

I think there is a difference between being a celebrity and being an actor.

I think people I'm close to find it absolutely crazy that I'm famous.

The way 'star' used to be reserved for a small number of people, and when the star category became so vast, they came up with 'superstar,' and then they came up with 'megastar.'