Chiwetel Ejiofor

I've always been a believer in research. It's great to have an instinctual human reaction to a character, too, of course, but…

— Chiwetel Ejiofor

There are many different ways the public can respond to actors - they can see you on TV and feel they know…

— Chiwetel Ejiofor

I wouldnt be the same actor if I couldnt do theater.

— Chiwetel Ejiofor

It's a strange thing, but you get this click in your brain; the wonderful feeling that the entirety of a character is…

— Chiwetel Ejiofor

We always want to live in an environment where there's no artificial block to good work.

— Chiwetel Ejiofor

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…

— Chiwetel Ejiofor

Ive always liked the idea of being a father. And Ive always romanticised it, because I lost my father when I was…

— Chiwetel Ejiofor

I've always liked the idea of being a father. And I've always romanticised it, because I lost my father when I was…

— Chiwetel Ejiofor

My favorite thing to cook is anything that comes out okay. I'm very fond of certain pastas and sauces that I can…

— Chiwetel Ejiofor

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

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

Working in this industry, I do feel that science and creativity turned out to be a very useful combination for me.

— Chiwetel Ejiofor

The history of slavery and the complication of slavery is that it is an international concept. It is something that affected people…

— Chiwetel Ejiofor

All roads lead home in the end. You've got to keep that in mind always - in your work and in your…

— Chiwetel Ejiofor

That global poverty would end. That people would be able to eat. It's the worst shame in the world that people go…

— Chiwetel Ejiofor

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

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

I was probably 14 or 15 when I was first on stage at school doing 'Measure for Measure.' I immediately felt it…

— Chiwetel Ejiofor

I can run a good few miles. I box a little.

— Chiwetel Ejiofor

My father, Arinze Ejiofor , was a musician and a doctor. Nobody's ever asked me about that combination and what growing up…

— Chiwetel Ejiofor

I started off doing plays as a theater actor. But I never thought of it in terms of it leading anywhere. I…

— Chiwetel Ejiofor

My music tastes are often 20 years behind.

— Chiwetel Ejiofor

I was already devouring literature and I was the ripe old age of 15 when I decided to be an actor. I…

— Chiwetel Ejiofor

I started working as an actor, semi-professionally, when I was 16, and got my first professional gig at 19. I guess I've…

— Chiwetel Ejiofor

I'm constantly discovering things. Like Bobby Bland. Right now I suppose I'm into the Eighties, which turned out to be a great…

— Chiwetel Ejiofor