There's always a sense of newness with acting, because every role, you come to every role fresh.

Even in my dreams of being an actor, my dream was not in the celebrity. My dream was in the work that I wanted to do.

I have a very ostrich mentality. I feel like I have my head in the sand so no one can see me.

As human beings, it is our nature to dream about the future, but there is no future without a healthy nature. It's the common denominator that we all depend on, not just to live but to be happy. That's why we owe it to each other to make sure nature stays healthy.

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.

I come from a loving, supportive family, and my mother taught me that there are more valuable ways to achieve beauty than just through your external features. She was focused on compassion and respect, and those are the things that ended up translating to me as beauty.

Growing up in Kenya, slum life was not far away. I had family that lived in slums, so I visited them often, and so I've seen and interacted with abject poverty. But I also know that because of that, poverty is not the definition of the people that live there.