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Chiwetel Ejiofor Quotes
Chiwetel Ejiofor Quotes
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
People
Own
Universe
Approach
Ways
Also
Expectations
Different
Different People
Different Ways
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
Respect
Dignity
Somebody
Incredibly
Our
Hut
Powerful
Over
Like
Ideas
Calling
Felt
Years
Human
Just
Experiences
Deep
Slave
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
You
People
Events
Looking
Definite
Had
Like
Very
Them
Plan
Who
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
History
Sometimes
Try
Our
Address
Take
Stuff
Along
Know
Massive
Also
Parts
Move
Move Forward
Them
Certain
Granted
Forward
Gaps
Basis
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
Success
Feeling
Changed
Way
Only
Disappear
Like
Equate
Role
Being
Express
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
Work
Joy
Sometimes
Pride
Finished
Bit
Absurd
Feel
Like
Making
Sound
Doing
Article
Going
Really
Ceremony
Awards
Ever
Enjoyment
I was the classic middle child in some ways, the one who could have been a priest in an alternate universe.
Chiwetel Ejiofor
Universe
Ways
Classic
Some
Could
Priest
Alternate
Been
Child
Middle
Who
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
Character
You
Approaching
Enjoy
Think
Projects
Character Actor
Able
Various
Lead
Part
Feel
Know
Also
Obviously
Well
Sort
Been
Very
Any
Capacities
Working
Fortunate
Film
Actor
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
Think
About
Percent
Sure
Been
Done
Even
Film
Watch
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
Book
Think
Once
Solomon
About
Know
Read
Years
Text
Shocked
Quite
Anything
Which
Deserves
Slave
Friends at school were always quite shocked that we holidayed in Nigeria, but it was all pretty middle-class, really.
Chiwetel Ejiofor
School
Pretty
Always
Were
Friends
Shocked
Quite
Really
Nigeria
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
Me
Relationship
Memory
Father
Older
Evolving
Some
Know
Him
His
Get
Interest
Interested
Things
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
Perspective
Lawyer
President
Tell
About
Through
Tradition
Stories
Inherited
Slave
Slavery
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
Life
Great
You
World
Reading
Spend
Find
Weird
Weird Thing
Parts
Trying
Script
Scripts
Agent
Your
Traveling
Thing
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
Me
World
Remember
School
Reading
Young
Finding
Shakespeare
Taken
Taking
Opened
Self-Expression
Access
Up
Just
Stories
Loved
Literature
English
English Literature
Whole
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
Life
Time
You
My Life
Long
Somewhere
Else
London
About
Shake
Somewhere Else
Long Periods
Had
Simultaneously
Missing
California
Periods
Always
Impression
Being
Happening
While
Really
Thing
Enjoyed
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
Truth
You
Together
Chasing
Feeling
Every
Penetrate
Kind
Constantly
Some
Part
Look
Whether
Scripts
Moving
Really
Production
Actor
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
Life
Work
Great
Me
Rule
Find
Takes
Since
Always
Precedence
Often
Acting
Necessarily
Started
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
You
Experience
Think
More
Open
Blind
Terror
Go
Were
Want
Younger
Keep
Actor
Things
Extent
We always want to live in an environment where there's no artificial block to good work.
Chiwetel Ejiofor
Work
Good
Good Work
Live
Environment
Always
Block
Artificial
Where
Want
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
You
Else
Something
Something Else
Feel
Know
Because
Want
Again
Then
Really
Certain
Certain Things
Express
Expressed
Actor
Things
Need
The Second World War simplified things like race, and people came down on very clear lines.
Chiwetel Ejiofor
War
People
World
Down
Simplified
Clear
Like
Came
Lines
Very
Race
Things
Second
World War
Second World War
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