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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
I fell in love with film. I didn't start out to be a film actor. I wanted to be a theater actor.
— Chiwetel Ejiofor
There's always something ridiculous happening on the set, especially when people get tired because of the long days.
— Chiwetel Ejiofor
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
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
I think the crucial thing about being an actor is to be doing it.
— Chiwetel Ejiofor
I am struck by how, walking down the street, I'm rarely made aware of my race, but that among journalists, race is absolutely massive.
— Chiwetel Ejiofor
Sometimes television can just jump from one bit of plot to the next, and the words fill in the in-between.
— Chiwetel Ejiofor
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
I can run a good few miles. I box a little.
— Chiwetel Ejiofor
I would love to be a fly on the wall watching other directors and actors to see what their process is like.
— Chiwetel Ejiofor
When I first had my eyebrows waxed, I was pretty disturbed.
— Chiwetel Ejiofor
The Second World War simplified things like race, and people came down on very clear lines.
— 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.
— Chiwetel Ejiofor
I wouldn't be the same actor if I couldn't do theater.
— Chiwetel Ejiofor
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
I feel that audiences are very sophisticated, and part of my challenge is to keep them engaged because they are so complex.
— Chiwetel Ejiofor
It's hard to tell the story if you're not involved yourself, emotionally.
— Chiwetel Ejiofor
We always want to live in an environment where there's no artificial block to good work.
— Chiwetel Ejiofor
In England, there's no acknowledgement the invention of slavery came from Britain.
— Chiwetel Ejiofor
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
I think fear is a very healthy motivator.
— Chiwetel Ejiofor
I was attracted to 'Half of a Yellow Sun' because of the story.
— Chiwetel Ejiofor
I was always lucky that I've always had a gig, I'm fortunate in that way.
— Chiwetel Ejiofor
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
I'm constantly discovering things. Like Bobby Bland. Right now I suppose I'm into the Eighties, which turned out to be a great musical period.
— Chiwetel Ejiofor
I love the theater community and theater life, and would love to figure out the distinctive differences between Broadway and the West End.
— Chiwetel Ejiofor
I believe people instinctively know that about writing, yet people get confused about that when it comes to acting.
— Chiwetel Ejiofor
I'm in favor of anything that promotes greener solutions.
— Chiwetel Ejiofor
I was the classic middle child in some ways, the one who could have been a priest in an alternate universe.
— Chiwetel Ejiofor
Different people approach the universe in different ways, but they also approach their own expectations in different ways.
— Chiwetel Ejiofor
I've long been a fan of Chiwetel Ejiofor. I think he's a great actor. He's my kind of guy. He does what I aspire to do.
— Garret Dillahunt
I've always enjoyed doing a huge variety of roles, which I think helps, instead of settling for the things I might be most comfortable with.
— Chiwetel Ejiofor
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
I enjoy doing everything, comedy and drama. I just look for the characters really and what they offer.
— Chiwetel Ejiofor
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
My music tastes are often 20 years behind.
— Chiwetel Ejiofor
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
Working in this industry, I do feel that science and creativity turned out to be a very useful combination for me.
— Chiwetel Ejiofor
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
You do as much research as you can for any project.
— Chiwetel Ejiofor
