It's so much more fun to do the work than to talk about it. I will have to admit that. Everybody gets to decide how they feel, and what to take away by themselves, and that's what you hope for. That people will take away different things and have different experiences from the work we do as actors. So I don't like to prescribe how to feel about the work I do.

I would love to have a career that's governed by the material; I always want to be part of stories that I feel are worthwhile.

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

What I've learned from myself is that I don't have to be anybody else. Myself is good enough.

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.

As human beings, what makes us able to empathize with people is a connection that is not necessarily understood mentally.

We, as human beings, have the capacity for extreme cruelty.