Chiwetel Ejiofor Quotes

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• I like to disappear into a role. I equate the success of it with a feeling of being chemically changed. That's the only way I…
• 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 and…
• I was the classic middle child in some ways, the one who could have been a priest in an alternate universe.
• This is going to sound completely absurd, but I do sometimes feel like the enjoyment of an awards ceremony or the pride in the finished…
• I wanted to be an actor ever since I got on stage for the first time, aged 13. Before that, I thought I might follow…
• David Mamet was great to work with. He was everything that I thought he would be as a director. He's incredibly articulate, an easy collaborator.…
• I became an actor by doing school plays and youth theaters, and then National Youth Theatre of Great Britain. And then I did study at…
• Depending on what your interest in theater is, I always recommend working on plays. It's a great way to be introduced to the field, and…
• I was already devouring literature and I was the ripe old age of 15 when I decided to be an actor. I just thought plays…
• When I first had my eyebrows waxed, I was pretty disturbed.
• I enjoy doing everything, comedy and drama. I just look for the characters really and what they offer.
• I think I enjoy working obviously as a lead, but also you know I feel I'm also a character actor as well, so I enjoy…
• Friends at school were always quite shocked that we holidayed in Nigeria, but it was all pretty middle-class, really.
• I have an evolving relationship with my father, and his memory, especially the older I get. I know that some of the things that interested…
• I think that all the talented filmmakers sort of share, I think, a sense of allowing magic to happen; of creating a stable and secure…
• I was able to go on stage and work until it felt right or felt good. It meant that I very quickly realised that it…
• I look at scripts really for whether they can be moving or penetrate some kind of truth. You are constantly chasing that feeling as an…
• Since I started acting, I always or often find work takes precedence with me. And that is not necessarily a great rule for life.
• I think, as a younger actor, you are more open to the experience. And to an extent, you want to go into things blind and…
• We take it for granted sometimes that certain parts of our history are told, and we take it for granted that we know all that…

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