Chiwetel Ejiofor Quotes & Sayings (Page 3)

“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.”

“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.”

“The history of slavery and the complication of slavery is that it is an international concept. It is something that affected people who were our people. For example, there were people from the west of Nigeria who were taken by the hundreds of thousands and brought to Louisiana. I'm Igbo; my family is Igbo. So it is a story that I'm connected to.”

“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.”

“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.”

“Friends at school were always quite shocked that we holidayed in Nigeria, but it was all pretty middle-class, really.”

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

“I can run a good few miles. I box a little.”

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

“I love the theater community and theater life, and would love to figure out the distinctive differences between Broadway and the West End.”