It's hard to tell the story if you're not involved yourself, emotionally. — 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… — Chiwetel Ejiofor Copy Share Image
I've just tried to keep my eyes open, tried to read everything you can, and tried to see whether I see myself… — Chiwetel Ejiofor Copy Share Image
If you're looking at people like Patrice Lumumba, you are looking at people who had a very definite plan, and events overran… — 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
There are many different ways the public can respond to actors - they can see you on TV and feel they know… — 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
Normally, if you're lucky, the idea of a film you have in your head is more or less what you get back… — Chiwetel Ejiofor Copy Share Image
I think, as a younger actor, you are more open to the experience. And to an extent, you want to go into… — Chiwetel Ejiofor Copy Share Image
It's a weird thing when you spend your life trying to find these great scripts and great parts. You are reading scripts,… — 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
The truth is, it's a totalitarian dictatorship when you're making films. You are the boss. You can listen to other people, and… — Chiwetel Ejiofor Copy Share Image
There's a catharsis in cutting down trees. But there's absolutely none of that in picking cotton. It's maddening! It's fiddly, and it… — 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
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
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
We always want to live in an environment where there's no artificial block to good work. — Chiwetel Ejiofor Copy Share
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
The history of slavery and the complication of slavery is that it is an international concept. It is something that affected people who were… — Chiwetel Ejiofor Copy Share
All roads lead home in the end. You've got to keep that in mind always - in your work and in your life. — Chiwetel Ejiofor Copy Share
That global poverty would end. That people would be able to eat. It's the worst shame in the world that people go hungry. — Chiwetel Ejiofor Copy Share
