Lupita Nyong'o Quotes

I feel there's something about becoming a character that helps people understand themselves.

I've done teaching and things like that because if you're acting, you're becoming other human beings, and you need to have time to find who you are as well.

One of the greatest moments in anybody's developing experience is when he no longer tries to hide from himself but determines to get acquainted with himself as he really is.

I think acting can bring you closer to yourself and help you understand other people.

Acting is the business of truth, so that we can see ourselves reflected back and learn.

You can spend a bit of yourself when you give yourself to a character. At the end of a job, you have to remind yourself who and what you are.

Like, that was weird in 'Hamlet 2,' because I played myself there, fully myself, but then I realized, 'Oh, I'm not playing myself. I'm some weird version of myself.' So as an actress, you're always playing something, I don't even know who I am, how could I become me? I don't know what that is.

One of the things I like about acting is that, in a funny way, I come back to myself.

I wake up and play a different person every day. Playing all these different characters and trying to figure out who your true authentic self is at the core of that as you're playing all these different roles, and man, that self-awareness starts to come into effect. And you start to see who you really are.

Well, I think that in every character there are little bits and pieces of yourself.

It's amazing what you find out about yourself when you write in the first person about someone very different from you.

I just want to portray a very honest character that displays traits that people can truly relate to and can help them - the audience and myself because I learn from the characters as well - help them see themselves in a perspective that is outside of what they know already, and grow from that experience.

At the end of the day, you have to find the humanity in you in each character.

At first, I didn't realize it was gonna be a character. I just thought I was gonna be doing me.

I'm now learning how to distinguish when I'm acting and when I'm not acting - offstage as well as onstage.

As an actor, I've always wanted to do characters that would help me find my connection with others and connect all of us together. You always want the energy of the character, the spirit of the person, to enter you. I've been doing this for 26 years and some of the things I've done are always with me.

I don't know, I feel like any role that I play is a little piece of me, whether it's their perspective, maybe how they dress, what they think is funny, their loyalty to their friends. It all stems from Kiersey.

I learned to understand the distance a character can be from yourself and how important rehearsal can be to creating a person that feels like a person that isn't you.

When you play characters, you shouldn't just be putting on their characteristics - you should be finding it inside yourself.

You have to bring yourself to a character.

I think, when you're an actor, it kind of enables you to fully inhabit all of the youngest parts of yourself.

Being an actor requires a lot of self-analysis and reflection. The better you know who you are, the better you are at becoming another person.

You know, you do have a self-awareness as an actor.

I think there are parts of myself in every character I play.

In every character you play, as much as you hate to admit it as an actor, but there's an element of you that you bring to it.