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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
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Chiwetel Ejiofor
Age: 50
Born: 1974
Born: July 10
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Chiwetel Umeadi Ejiofor
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More quotes by Chiwetel Ejiofor
The thing about film is it is a very precise form. You know if you have it and you know if you don't have it. There's not really a middle bit where you're like, I think we kind of have that scene.
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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.
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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.
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Working in this industry, I do feel that science and creativity turned out to be a very useful combination for me.
Chiwetel Ejiofor
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.
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I like to disappear into a role. I equate the success of it with a feeling of being chemically changed.
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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.
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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.
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I think fear is a very healthy motivator.
Chiwetel Ejiofor
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.
Chiwetel Ejiofor
I enjoy doing everything, comedy and drama. I just look for the characters really and what they offer.
Chiwetel Ejiofor
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
I would love to be a fly on the wall watching other directors and actors to see what their process is like.
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
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.
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 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.
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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
I was always lucky that I've always had a gig, I'm fortunate in that way.
Chiwetel Ejiofor
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
