Chiwetel Ejiofor Quotes

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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

  Pride, Awards, Joy

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

  Chiwetel Ejiofor

  Home, Mind, Ends

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I like to disappear into a role. I equate the success of it with a feeling of being chemically changed.

  Chiwetel Ejiofor

  Feelings, Roles, Way

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I think fear is a very healthy motivator.

  Chiwetel Ejiofor

  Thinking, Healthy

  Source: aalbc.com

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• The only way to be an actor is to find ways to work as an actor, even if that means doing a one-man show by a river.

  Chiwetel Ejiofor

  Mean, Men, Rivers

  Source: aalbc.com

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• I'm in favor of anything that promotes greener solutions.

  Chiwetel Ejiofor

  Favors, Greener, Solutions

  Source: aalbc.com

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• I think a lot of acting is about the removal of self-consciousness. The actor is going to be in front of a lot of people, and will naturally feel self-conscious. So a lot of the preparation for that is the removal of that idea. Like you embody or are connected to this character, therefore you can present this character in a way that eventually, when you come back to see it, you feel not exactly ashamed of.

  Chiwetel Ejiofor

  Character, Thinking, People

  Source: film.avclub.com

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• Ive just tried to keep my eyes open, tried to read everything you can, and tried to see whether I see myself within it. If I do, then I can get excited about it.

  Chiwetel Ejiofor

  Eye, Excited, Ifs

  "Actor Chiwetel Ejiofor". "The Tavis Smiley Show", www.pbs.org. February 13, 2014.

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• 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 accessible to you.

  Chiwetel Ejiofor

  Character, Feelings, Brain

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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

  Children, Middle Child, Way

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• I try to just be open to what the next experience is and how it makes me feel, just reading a project, or trying to get involved with a project, or thinking about a project, and what particular emotional flavor that brings. To me, it's never really about planning the next thing, or the career arc. It's about investigating how I feel, from project to project, and finding things that I haven't explored and what that would be like.

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  Reading, Emotional, Thinking

  Source: collider.com

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• Solomon Northup is one of the most remarkable people Ive ever encountered in my life; one of the most amazing stories I have ever been in any kind of contact with. To not tell that story would have been disgraceful, in my opinion.

  Chiwetel Ejiofor

  People, Stories, Opinion

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• When I first had my eyebrows waxed, I was pretty disturbed.

  Chiwetel Ejiofor

  Eyebrows, Firsts, Disturbed

  Interview With Todd Gilchrist, www.ign.com. April 13, 2006.

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• Dividing everybody into genders and sexuality and races and religions, and I think its important to have films out there, to have discussions out there which really try to get to grips with where that kind of thing can lead.

  Chiwetel Ejiofor

  Thinking, Race, Important

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• 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 also a great way to be seen by agents and representation. I'm also a great advocate for studying acting at a drama school or a college.

  Chiwetel Ejiofor

  Drama, School, College

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

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• I started off doing plays as a theater actor. But I never thought of it in terms of it leading anywhere. I was just trying to be the best actor that I could be in the context of what I was doing.

  Chiwetel Ejiofor

  Play, Trying, Actors

  Source: aalbc.com

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• I'm constantly looking to see whether I look the same as I did earlier, whether I've put on or lost any weight.

  Chiwetel Ejiofor

  Looks, Weight, Lost

  Source: aalbc.com

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

  Chiwetel Ejiofor

  People, Would Be, World

  Source: aalbc.com

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• In England, theres no acknowledgement the invention of slavery came from Britain.

  Chiwetel Ejiofor

  Slavery, England, Invention

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• When you're no longer seeing yourself, in some ways. You're as close to being as you can be.I suppose that's consistent with the moment that the mind actually turns off, and is no longer questioning what you're doing. When the questions stop, that's when the real acting takes over. And trying to get to the point where the questions stop, "Would I do this? How do I feel about that as a character?" When those stop, and it's just doing X, Y, and zed, because that's what you'd do as this character, because you're inside this character somehow - that's when it really kicks off.

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  Real, Character, Mind

  Source: film.avclub.com

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• I feel that audiences are very sophisticated, and part of my challenge is to keep them engaged because they are so complex.

  Chiwetel Ejiofor

  Challenges, Sophisticated, Feels

  Source: aalbc.com

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• My favorite thing to cook is anything that comes out okay. I'm very fond of certain pastas and sauces that I can just about cook from scratch. So those are what I like to cook, as well as roasted potatoes and chicken. Anything that tastes alright.

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  Scratches, Pasta, Sauce

  Source: aalbc.com

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• Once you click into a character, to a certain degree, you can do a lot else. You can do other stuff, then come back and click right into the character. It's sort of funny that way, the way the mind works. Once it's there, it's sort of there. For the stage, for example, all through the day, you're not onstage. You're living your life, la-la-la, then the lights go down, then boom! All of a sudden, you're in this thing. There's a kind of reflex muscle trigger that happens, and all of a sudden you're back into the role. It's just getting there in the first place that's tricky.

  Chiwetel Ejiofor

  Character, Live Your Life, Mind

  Source: film.avclub.com

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

  Chiwetel Ejiofor

  Actors, Theater, Ifs

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• I started working as an actor, semi-professionally, when I was 16, and got my first professional gig at 19. I guess I've kind of worked pretty consistently since then.

  Chiwetel Ejiofor

  Actors, Gigs, Firsts

  Source: aalbc.com

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