You have to allow for the impossible to be possible.

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.

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

I think beauty is an expression of love.

Beautiful people have many advantages, but so do friendly people.

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