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.

Makeup isn't something I've worn a lot of in my life.

In the madness, you have to find calm.

I've worked hard to feel beautiful in my natural skin. Personally, I don't ever want to depend on makeup to feel beautiful.

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.

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

I do my best work when I feel conviction to say something through the character I play. Always I want to have integrity and not compromise that.