Lupita Nyong'o Quotes

You have to be slightly uncomfortable with what you're doing, and you have to be able to try to find moments of newness.

My motto in life is 'Take risks;' you don't have a voice if you don't. You have to venture outside your boundaries. That's what life's all about.

You can't wear only one dress and be so safe. You have to risk; that's how you learn about yourself.

You have to try things in life.

It's fun to be on the edge. I think you do your best work when you take chances, when you're not safe, when you're not in the middle of the road, at least for me, anyway.

I always say, you know, if I sit here and close my eyes and say, 'When did I learn the most in my life, in my career?' It'll always be when I close them and everything I think of is when I took a risk. It's when I think I learned the most.

I'm attracted to seeing how different I can be, pushing the boat out.

I always wanted to be that guy who pushed the envelope in all kind of ways and tried something new. When I keep that rule going, it always takes me to a new place. There are times when I fail miserably, but I always find myself knowing one more thing better, doing one more thing that I never did before.

It's important to be willing to make mistakes. The worst thing that can happen is you become memorable.

No, you never get any fun out of the things you haven't done.

I'm in the camp that needs to discover and take risks, sometimes it's with the promise of something special and new, sometimes it's to stay awake, either way it's much more stressful with all the uncertainty but worth the pain in the end.

I want to try new things and put myself out there and take some risks.

You don't break ground by doing the same thing over and over and over. That's like standing in place. You have to risk to gain it all.

Well, when you're trying to create things that are new, you have to be prepared to be on the edge of risk.

I always want to keep challenging myself to do something that I don't even have the foresight to know what it's going to be.

Any characters that make me think, 'I don't know if I can do this,' are the ones I most want to do. I don't want to do the same thing over and over.

Nobody knows what they're doing, so don't be afraid to try things.

We must risk going too far to discover just how far we can go.

I want to experiment; I want to keep growing. I didn't want to just sit back and rest on my haunches and do the things I knew I could do for a while.

Do what you can't and experience the beauty of the mistakes you make.

[...] My wild words slip into fusion and risk losing the solid ground. So stranger, get wilder still. Probe the highlands.

How can you go out on a limb if you do not know your own tree? No art ever came out of not risking your neck. And risk--experiment--is a considerable part of the joy of doing.

I find it somewhat liberating to jump, to dive into things that are the opposite of me.

What I try to do as an actor is constantly find that, find ways to risk, find opportunities to fall on my face if it's going to be worth it, and then maybe I'll surprise myself.

Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new.