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Chiwetel Ejiofor
Chiwetel Ejiofor
British Actor
Born: Jul 10, 1974
About Great Life Think Work You
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Different people approach the universe in different ways, but they also approach their own expectations in different ways. Chiwetel Ejiofor
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From deep in the slave hut is somebody calling over 150 years to all of our experiences and all of our ideas on human respect, and all of our ideas on dignity. And I felt like that's just incredibly powerful. Chiwetel Ejiofor
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If you're looking at people like Patrice Lumumba, you are looking at people who had a very definite plan, and events overran them. Chiwetel Ejiofor
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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 stuff, and we move forward along on that basis, but there are also massive gaps, and we have to try to address them. Chiwetel Ejiofor
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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 in the medical footsteps of my parents: my father was a doctor, my mother a pharmacist. Chiwetel Ejiofor
Time Doctor Mother Father Thought Parents First Before Stage Follow Since Footsteps First Time Got Wanted Aged Might Actor Ever Medical Pharmacist
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 can express it. Chiwetel Ejiofor
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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 article hasn't ever surpassed the joy of doing the work, of making it. The doing it is really the bit I'm there for. Chiwetel Ejiofor
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I was the classic middle child in some ways, the one who could have been a priest in an alternate universe. Chiwetel Ejiofor
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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 approaching various projects in all sort of capacities. Any film I have been able to do I feel very fortunate to have been a part of. Chiwetel Ejiofor
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I enjoy doing everything, comedy and drama. I just look for the characters really and what they offer. Chiwetel Ejiofor
Comedy Enjoy Drama Everything Characters Look Doing Offer Just Really
I can watch a film, even a film that I've been in, and think, 'I'm not sure, 100 percent, what I think about it.' I'm not sure what I think about what I've done in it. Chiwetel Ejiofor
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I didn't know anything about '12 Years a Slave.' Not the book, not Solomon Northup, which I was quite shocked by, once I'd read it, that it wasn't a seminal text. I think it deserves to be. Chiwetel Ejiofor
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Friends at school were always quite shocked that we holidayed in Nigeria, but it was all pretty middle-class, really. Chiwetel Ejiofor
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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 him are things that interest me. Chiwetel Ejiofor
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The inherited tradition is that we don't tell stories about slavery from the perspective of the slave. It's told through the president or the lawyer. Chiwetel Ejiofor
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It's a weird thing when you spend your life trying to find these great scripts and great parts. You are reading scripts, you are traveling the world, you are hassling your agent. You are trying to find that script. Chiwetel Ejiofor
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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 environment for performers to feel they can push to the end of their ability. Chiwetel Ejiofor
Sense Think Secure Ability Magic Push Share Allowing Environment Feel Performers Talented Sort End Stable Happen Creating Filmmakers
I started, obviously, doing theater, and I always thought that I would; in a way, I always thought that I'd be a theater actor. When I was starting out, I didn't really plan on making films, actually. Chiwetel Ejiofor
Thought Films Way Out Would Obviously Always Making Doing Theater Plan Really Actor Actually Started Starting
I loved reading when I was young. I was just completely taken by stories. And I remember taking that into English literature at school and taking that into Shakespeare and finding that opened up a whole world of self-expression to me that I didn't have access to previously. Chiwetel Ejiofor
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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 the impression when I was in L.A. for long periods of time that simultaneously my life was happening somewhere else, and I'm missing it. Chiwetel Ejiofor
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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 actor when every part of a production comes together. Chiwetel Ejiofor
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Since I started acting, I always or often find work takes precedence with me. And that is not necessarily a great rule for life. Chiwetel Ejiofor
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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 energised as if you were 15. Keep that terror. Chiwetel Ejiofor
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We always want to live in an environment where there's no artificial block to good work. Chiwetel Ejiofor
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As an actor, you express certain things because they need to be expressed, and then you don't really feel a need to do it again. I want to feel something else, you know? Chiwetel Ejiofor
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The Second World War simplified things like race, and people came down on very clear lines. Chiwetel Ejiofor
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