Lupita Nyong'o Quotes

Tears come from the heart and not from the brain.

I would spend months and months looking for a sound. I had to do that, or I wouldn't feel the extreme emotions I was feeling in my heart.

The deepest feeling always shows itself in silence; not in silence, but restraint.

I'm thought of as a cool, unemotional dancer, but inside I'm not.

I think the last book I cried in was Patti Smith's 'Just Kids.' I don't shy away from crying, though. I actually really enjoy being moved like that.

I have all the emotions that everyone has; it just appears that I don't.

When the heart is full, the eyes overflow.

When you're watching a movie and find yourself getting emotional, it's because you're bringing something personal to the images. It's the same thing with acting. You're bringing the essence of your core emotional being to that moment.

I was really dramatic, really concerned with love or life.

Periodically, my mind is blown and I'm swamped in feelings I can't deny.

I think the love scenes are very powerful and they're not trying to simply show the bodies of the actors but trying to reflect the inner feelings of the character so it's easier in that way.

My feelings can perhaps be imagined, but they can hardly be described.

That was one of the saddest things about people--their most important thoughts and feelings often went unspoken and barely understood.

People act on the outside the way they feel on the inside.

People who become used to saying little become used to feeling little.

Sometimes when I'm in the studio I feel so much but don't know how to express it. You're just like in a cave - life goes on without you.

He turned, as he spoke, a peculiar look in her direction, a look of hatred unless he has a most perverse set of facial muscles that will not, like those of other people, interpret the language of his soul.

What actors need to do is to find a way to show people their despair, their joy, their pain, their exhilaration. All of these deep, deep emotional things - good and bad - so that if you're able to do that, then there's a kind of resonance that happens.

In our deepest moments we say the most inadequate things.

But I can't listen to music too often. It affects your nerves, makes you want to say stupid, nice things, and stroke the heads of people who could create such beauty while living in this vile hell.

Passions are likened best to floods and streams: The shallow murmur, but the deep are dumb.

Why do things this beautiful make me want to cry?" I asked Michael as I leaned into him. It was an unguarded question, one I'd never have asked of Hugh. "I don't know," said Michael. "Maybe beauty, true beauty, is so overwhelming, it goes straight to our hearts. Maybe it makes us feel emotions that are locked away inside.

I sometimes find it half a sin, To put to words the grief i feel, For words like nature,half reveal, and half conceal the soul within.

For whatever reason, I have an emotional life that wants to come out.

Why is it that you can sometimes feel the reality of people more keenly through a letter than face to face?