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.

I never, in my wildest dreams, could I have thought that the first role I get out of school would lead to an Oscar nomination.

I have always loved children. I've been fantasizing about motherhood since I was probably 2 ½. I loved to babysit my cousins, and nieces, you know.

Every time I overcome an obstacle, it feels like success. Sometimes the biggest ones are in our head - the saboteurs that tell us we can't.

I went to the Independent Spirit Awards and won.

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.

I like to wear things, I don't like things to wear me.