Chiwetel Ejiofor Quotes & Sayings (Page 4)

“I was able to go on stage and work until it felt right or felt good. It meant that I very quickly realised that it was the job for me.”

“I wouldn't be the same actor if I couldn't do theater.”

“In England, there's no acknowledgement the invention of slavery came from Britain.”

“Since I started acting, I always or often find work takes precedence with me. And that is not necessarily a great rule for life.”

“Sometimes television can just jump from one bit of plot to the next, and the words fill in the in-between.”

“I think I enjoy working obviously as a lead, but also you know I feel I'm also a character actor as well, so I enjoy approaching various projects in all sort of capacities. Any film I have been able to do I feel very fortunate to have been a part of.”

“You do as much research as you can for any project.”

“As a child, I was just never that interested in the lives of my favourite actors, like Cary Grant. I do wonder whether knowing too much about someone's personal life interrupts an audience's ability to suspend disbelief, to really invest in the characters. My preference would always be that people engage with the work.”

“As an actor, you express certain things because they need to be expressed, and then you don't really feel a need to do it again. I want to feel something else, you know?”

“Dividing everybody into genders and sexuality and races and religions, and I think it's 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.”