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

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.

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

On a very practical level, I've learned the importance of circulation socks for planes. I had this awful experience of getting off a flight to go to an event and my feet had swelled. Try getting into heels then! So you put on the socks for the flight, then you can wear whatever heels you want.

To be human is to seek perfection, and find joy in never attaining it.

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