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I dress according to how I feel.
There is no shame in black beauty.
In the madness, you have to find calm.
Happiness is the most important thing.
I think beauty is an expression of love.
I've always had an involved imagination.
You can’t eat beauty. It doesn’t feed you.
Human beings have an instinct for freedom.
I'm pretty awesome at making salad dressings.
I went to the Independent Spirit Awards and won.
As actors, you become an expert at starting over.
No matter where you're from, your dreams are valid.
You have to allow for the impossible to be possible.
Makeup isn't something I've worn a lot of in my life.
I want to be uncomfortable - acting is uncomfortable.
I like to wear things, I don't like things to wear me.
I thrive on structure. I find my freedom in structure.
I like people who don't tell you what you want to hear.
What's becoming very obvious to me is that fashion is art.
We, as human beings, have the capacity for extreme cruelty.
Your value is in yourself; the other stuff will come and go.
Beautiful people have many advantages, but so do friendly people.
Slavery is something that is all too often swept under the carpet.
Personally, I don't ever want to depend on makeup to feel beautiful.
I definitely love fantasy and would want to be in a fantasy project.
To be human is to seek perfection, and find joy in never attaining it.
To this day, I love eating steak tacos before going to the red carpets.
What colonialism does is cause an identity crisis about one's own culture.
I always love to learn new things. That's the reason I like being an actor.
Clay can be dirt in the wrong hands, but clay can be art in the right hands.
Being considered a fashion star is wonderful. It's definitely a bonus thing.
I loved make-believe. I was the child in the cupboard playing with my Barbies.
Every single laundromat, grocery store, everything is called 'Lupita' in Mexico.
[My mother] always said I was beautiful and I finally believed her at some point.
Dreams are the foundation of Hollywood. And dreams are the foundation of America.
When I was younger, I was almost too afraid to admit that I wanted to be an actor.
What is fundamentally beautiful is compassion: for yourself and for those around you.
And my one prayer to God, the miracle worker, was that I would wake up lighter-skinned.
I went to an all-boys high school, and they accepted girls in only the two A.P. classes.
With success comes more responsibility, a larger size of existence, which is uncomfortable.
My parents gave me a Mexican name. In our culture, we are named after the events of the day.
Being a part of '12 Years a Slave' has been one of the most profound experiences of my life.
We don't get to pick the genes we want. There's room in this world for beauty to be diverse.
The Hollywood Film Awards were really stressful. It was the biggest press line I'd ever seen.
I have a very ostrich mentality. I feel like I have my head in the sand so no one can see me.
What I've learned from myself is that I don't have to be anybody else. Myself is good enough.
There's always a sense of newness with acting, because every role, you come to every role fresh.
You fail, and then what? Life goes on. It's only when you risk failure that you discover things.
I'm still trying to get over the fact that my name is being mentioned with people like Brad Pitt.
I loved duping my parents; I liked manipulating them. It was a way for me to stand out. It was fun.