British - Actor | July 10, 1974 -
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
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I think, as a younger actor, you are more open to the experience. And to an extent, you want to go into things blind and energised as if you were 15. Keep that terror.
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Solomon Northup is one of the most remarkable people I've ever encountered in my life; one of the most amazing stories I have ever been in any kind of contact with. To not tell that story would have been disgraceful, in my opinion.
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We always want to live in an environment where there's no artificial block to good work.
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I still have to say that I did 'Dirty Pretty Things' 11 years ago. That was a very sudden shift in my life and my relationship to my work, and it didn't feel it was impossible to make a film like that.
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There's a catharsis in cutting down trees. But there's absolutely none of that in picking cotton. It's maddening! It's fiddly, and it pricks your fingers, and it's something that's a very hard skill if you have no alacrity for it.
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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?
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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.
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I've always liked the idea of being a father. And I've always romanticised it, because I lost my father when I was young. In a way, all of the complications that come with my career are about that.
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The Second World War simplified things like race, and people came down on very clear lines.
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I was attracted to 'Half of a Yellow Sun' because of the story.
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There are many different ways the public can respond to actors - they can see you on TV and feel they know you and own you, and there can be something quite cornering about that.
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