Chiwetel Ejiofor Quotes - Page 2

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• Ive always liked the idea of being a father. And Ive always romanticised it, because I lost my father when I was young. In a way, all of the complications that come with my career are about that.

  Chiwetel Ejiofor

  Father, Careers, Ideas

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• 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

  Interviews, Aspect, Term

  Source: aalbc.com

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• A lot of people ask me about my father's passing when I was young, which I'm never comfortable with. I invariably move around that subject.

  Chiwetel Ejiofor

  Father, Moving, People

  Source: aalbc.com

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• I enjoy doing everything, comedy and drama. I just look for the characters really and what they offer.

  Chiwetel Ejiofor

  Drama, Character, Looks

  "Talking With Chiwetel Ejiofor". The Washington Post Live Q&As, www.washingtonpost.com. April 1, 2008.

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• 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 the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Arts. For me that was a good way to enter the field, to work in the theater.

  Chiwetel Ejiofor

  Art, School, Play

  "Talking With Chiwetel Ejiofor". The Washington Post Live Q&As, www.washingtonpost.com. April 1, 2008.

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• 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. Extraordinarily knowledgeable about film and writing.

  Chiwetel Ejiofor

  Writing, Directors, Would Be

  "Talking With Chiwetel Ejiofor". The Washington Post Live Q&As, www.washingtonpost.com. April 1, 2008.

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• Steve MCQueen created an entire family to tell one man's tale and I am delighted that so many of this family have also been recognised today. I am hugely grateful to the Academy for this great honour, and, of course, to Solomon Northup for sharing his story through his breathtaking book.

  Chiwetel Ejiofor

  Book, Grateful, Men

  "'Dallas Buyers Club,' 'American Hustle,' 'Gravity' score top Oscar nominations" by Courtney Hazlett, www.today.com. January 16, 2014.

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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

  Mother, Father, Doctors

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• I think Africa will have a crisper impact on Europe, as it has traditionally, and then that will filter into the American cultural psyche, in the way that India has.

  Chiwetel Ejiofor

  Thinking, Impact, Europe

  Source: aalbc.com

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• I think the crucial thing about being an actor is to be doing it.

  Chiwetel Ejiofor

  Thinking, Actors, Crucial

  Source: aalbc.com

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• I believe people instinctively know that about writing, yet people get confused about that when it comes to acting.

  Chiwetel Ejiofor

  Confused, Believe, Writing

  Source: aalbc.com

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• I have always been very fortunate in my working life in terms of the, I say that like I've not been fortunate at all in my private life.

  Chiwetel Ejiofor

  Term, Private Life, Working Life

  "Chiwetel Ejiofor on ‘Triple 9′ and Why He Wanted to be Part of ‘Doctor Strange’". Interview with Steve 'Frosty' Weintraub, collider.com. February 25, 2016.

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• I don't ever feel like I've had a moment where I am like, "There it is; perfect and holy in all ways."

  Chiwetel Ejiofor

  Perfect, Way, Moments

  "Chiwetel Ejiofor on ‘Triple 9′ and Why He Wanted to be Part of ‘Doctor Strange’". Interview with Steve 'Frosty' Weintraub, collider.com. February 25, 2016.

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• I am aware that I have been incredibly fortunate in my life to work with the people that I have worked with and pursue the projects that I have been able to do. There are so many films that I have done that I really, as a film person, as a film fan, that I like. And that is a nice place to think of a career in.

  Chiwetel Ejiofor

  Nice, Thinking, Careers

  Source: collider.com

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• I like finding things out beforehand, because I'm nervous in disposition, and I worry that if I don't do anything, then I'll turn up and I still won't really have a sense of it, and it might be too late. So I like to get things as organized as I possibly can in my own head, to apply myself to the work before arriving to a late-in-the-day rehearsal, or in extreme cases, the first day on set.

  Chiwetel Ejiofor

  Worry, Nervous

  Source: film.avclub.com

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• The hardest thing for a film actor, especially if you are in a lot of the film, is sustaining energy for the entire length of a production. It's quite tough. With acting, it's not the same as directing. Directors work the exact same hours; directing is incredibly exhausting. The only difference is that directors aren't required to have bursts of energy and focus. They're probably focused the entire day. Actors have this thing of "stop/start." That can be quite draining, actually.

  Chiwetel Ejiofor

  Focus, Acting, Energy

  Source: film.avclub.com

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• Practically everybody I've ever worked with, I'd like to work with again. I had a great time with the people that I've worked with, and the directors, and a lot of the casts. There's really nobody where you'd say, "Oh, I got X, Y, and zed again! Gahhh, no!" It really brings a smile to my face, because in 95 percent of the cases, people I've worked with, I'd be thrilled to work with again.

  Chiwetel Ejiofor

  People, Had A Great Time

  Source: film.avclub.com

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• When I worked with Woody Allen, I only got the parts of the script that I was in. I was able to piece together the narrative from that, but I remember being quite excited to watch the movie - the movie that I was in but didn't know what happened in, like, 65 percent of.

  Chiwetel Ejiofor

  Together, Watches, Pieces

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• There's always something ridiculous happening on the set, especially when people get tired because of the long days.

  Chiwetel Ejiofor

  Tired, Long, People

  Source: aalbc.com

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• Certainly what constitutes a stage actor, what constitutes a film actor, I don't even know what that is. And both things are very accurate, in a sense. In terms of people's needs to concentrate on race, I wonder if it's completely necessary, but it's not something that is so dynamically relevant to me that I feel it should be one thing or another.

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  Wonder, Film, Term

  Source: film.avclub.com

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• Ridley creates a very immersive world, so when you walk up to a Ridley Scott film set you're in Ridley Scott's imagination, and it's a really comfortable, cool place to be.

  Chiwetel Ejiofor

  Imagination, World, Film

  Source: collider.com

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• I was always lucky that I've always had a gig, I'm fortunate in that way.

  Chiwetel Ejiofor

  Lucky, Gigs, Way

  Source: collider.com

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• I remember being very affected by what was going on there towards the end of Apartheid. And the subject is still very pertinent, politically, to what's happening around the world today, in terms of negotiating peace talks. I had always been interested in this period of change in South Africa, generally, for a variety of reasons.

  Chiwetel Ejiofor

  World, Today, Remember

  Source: aalbc.com

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• I've often had the fortune to work on projects with a small theme I find very interesting enough to pursue and to be passionate about in the context of the story, then it may turn out there's a universality about my character which still resonates with many people as well.

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  Character, People, Interesting

  Source: aalbc.com

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• The thing about film is it is a very precise form. You know if you have it and you know if you don't have it. There's not really a middle bit where you're like, "I think we kind of have that scene."

  Chiwetel Ejiofor

  Thinking, Kind, Film

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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