With success comes more responsibility, a larger size of existence, which is uncomfortable.

When I was younger, I was almost too afraid to admit that I wanted to be an actor. I didn't know any successful actors in Kenya, so I felt like I could get away with going to college to study film more easily than I could with saying, 'I want to be an actor.' That's what I did.

It doesn't escape me for one moment that so much joy in my life is thanks to so much pain in someone else's.

What is fundamentally beautiful is compassion: for yourself and for those around you.

We don't get to pick the genes we want. There's room in this world for beauty to be diverse.

Being called gorgeous is not a bad thing! But at the same time, I don’t want to thrive on people’s opinions of me.

I used to enjoy doing silly walks on the street with my friends. Like, you know, you're walking, and then you break out in something completely ridiculous, to kind of spook out the person walking by you. I can't really do that anymore.