Dividing everybody into genders and sexuality and races and religions, and I think it's important to have films out there, to have… — Chiwetel Ejiofor Copy Share Image
I'd never really considered film. If I'd thought about film more growing up, I probably would have changed my name. I had… — Chiwetel Ejiofor Copy Share Image
I was probably 14 or 15 when I was first on stage at school doing 'Measure for Measure.' I immediately felt it… — Chiwetel Ejiofor Copy Share Image
I think when I was doing 'Amistad,' I was just too young to really understand what the process was, and beyond that,… — Chiwetel Ejiofor Copy Share Image
I started, obviously, doing theater, and I always thought that I would; in a way, I always thought that I'd be a… — Chiwetel Ejiofor Copy Share Image
I look at scripts really for whether they can be moving or penetrate some kind of truth. You are constantly chasing that… — Chiwetel Ejiofor Copy Share Image
As a child, I was just never that interested in the lives of my favourite actors, like Cary Grant. I do wonder… — Chiwetel Ejiofor Copy Share Image
As an actor, you express certain things because they need to be expressed, and then you don't really feel a need to… — Chiwetel Ejiofor Copy Share Image
I enjoyed being in California for a while. But that's the thing about London: you can't really shake it. I've always had… — Chiwetel Ejiofor Copy Share Image
Friends at school were always quite shocked that we holidayed in Nigeria, but it was all pretty middle-class, really. — Chiwetel Ejiofor Copy Share Image
I've always been a believer in research. It's great to have an instinctual human reaction to a character, too, of course, but it has… — Chiwetel Ejiofor Copy Share Image
There are many different ways the public can respond to actors - they can see you on TV and feel they know you and… — Chiwetel Ejiofor Copy Share Image
It's a strange thing, but you get this click in your brain; the wonderful feeling that the entirety of a character is suddenly available… — Chiwetel Ejiofor Copy Share Image
We always want to live in an environment where there's no artificial block to good work. — Chiwetel Ejiofor Copy Share Image
I do like sci-fi. When I was a kid, I was always sort of locked into sci-fi stories. So, sci-fi has always had a… — Chiwetel Ejiofor Copy Share Image
Ive always liked the idea of being a father. And Ive always romanticised it, because I lost my father when I was young. In… — Chiwetel Ejiofor Copy Share Image
I've always liked the idea of being a father. And I've always romanticised it, because I lost my father when I was young. In… — Chiwetel Ejiofor Copy Share Image
My favorite thing to cook is anything that comes out okay. I'm very fond of certain pastas and sauces that I can just about… — Chiwetel Ejiofor Copy Share Image
It's hard to maintain a life when you do a play. You feel you have to pretend to go through a normal day, knowing… — Chiwetel Ejiofor Copy Share Image
Reporters tend to launch on what seems to be the clearest, most stark aspects of someone's life in terms of an interview. — Chiwetel Ejiofor Copy Share Image
Working in this industry, I do feel that science and creativity turned out to be a very useful combination for me. — Chiwetel Ejiofor Copy Share Image
