Quotes by Chiwetel Ejiofor

Chiwetel Ejiofor

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

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Mind

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.

Film

Term

Wonder

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.

Directors

Would Be

Writing

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.

Careers

Nice

Thinking

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.

Art

Play

School

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

Believe

Confused

Writing

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

Moments

Perfect

Way

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

Character

Drama

Looks

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.

Remember

Today

World

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.

Actors

Firsts

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Growing Up

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Had A Great Time

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Live Your Life

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Quotes by Chiwetel Ejiofor

Chiwetel Ejiofor

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

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.

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