What I will say is that what I have learned for myself is that I don’t have to be anybody else; and that myself is good enough; and that when I am being true to that self, then I can avail myself to extraordinary thingsYou have to allow for the impossible to be possible.
You can’t eat beauty, it doesn’t sustain you. What is fundamentally beautiful is compassion, for yourself and those around you. That kind of beauty inflamed the heart and merchants the soul.
What I’ve learned from myself is that I don’t have to be anybody else. Myself is good enough.
No matter where you’re from, your dreams are valid.
I realized that beauty was not a thing that I could acquire or consume, it was something that I just had to be.
You fail, and then what? Life goes on. It’s only when you risk failure that you discover things.
I discovered that joy is not the negation of pain, but rather acknowledging the presence of pain and feeling happiness in spite of it.
You have to allow for the impossible to be possible.
What is fundamentally beautiful is compassion: for yourself and for those around you.
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 think it’s a real gift to be faced with man’s potential for extreme cruelty but also man’s resilience and the fact that love really does conquer everything. It’s the only answer to these kinds of atrocities and it’s not a passive thing.
Part of being an artist is that you are always concerned you don’t have what it takes. It keeps us honest.