Chiwetel Ejiofor Quotes

I look at scripts really for whether they can be moving or penetrate some kind of truth. You are constantly chasing that feeling as an actor when every part of a production comes together.

Chiwetel Ejiofor

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: actor
  • Nationality: british
  • Birth: July 10, 1974

Topics

TruthTogetherMovingYouLookKind

I'm not really that nerdy.

Jimmy Walker

NerdyReally

It is important to me that what Poe has to say gets across to people. I want to give people the feeling that I get from all this. I think that we are succeeding. The feedback is very warm.

John Astin

PeopleMeThinkWarmFeedbackWant

I don't care if the critics don't like me. I want to be the people's designer, like Diana was the people's princess.

Jeremy Scott

PeopleMeCarePrincessWantLike

Without truth I feel ashamed to be alive.

Andrei Platonov

TruthFeelAliveWithoutAshamed

Young screenwriters are always very frustrated when they talk to me. They say, 'How do we get to be a screenwriter?' I say, 'You know what you do? I'll tell you the secret, it's easy: Read 'Hamlet.' You know? Then read it again, and read it again, and read it until you understand it. Read 'King Lear,' and then read 'Othello.'

John Logan

KingMeEasyYouKnowYoung

New York City has finally hired women to pick up the garbage, which makes sense to me, since, as I've discovered, a good bit of being a woman consists of picking up garbage.

Anna Quindlen

GoodWomenWomanNew YorkCityMe

If I'm going out on the town in New York, I always wear Danielle Collins T-shirts - they are expressive, young: independent woman in charge of herself, her body, and her mind.

Amy Carlson

WomanNew YorkMindIndependent Woman

I did 'Gangs of New York' with Martin Scorsese, and they used to call me 'Little Joe Pesci' on the set.

Stephen Graham

New YorkMeNewLittleCallUsed

I think the moment that I'm very proud of is building a business without using animals. And, hopefully, changing people's perception of how you can do luxury fashion.

Stella McCartney

BusinessMomentPeopleFashionProud

It is difficult to imagine evolution in alien planets operating in any manner other than Darwinian.

Simon Conway Morris

SpaceAlienEvolutionDifficultThan

Our democratic system, national identity, and international space must be respected. Any forms of suppression will harm the stability of cross-strait relations.

Tsai Ing-wen

IdentitySpaceWillStabilitySystem

My own skin-care ritual is quite simple and straightforward; I don't like a lot of fuss, surprisingly. My products are designed to make you look and feel better. I think there are a lot of men out there who want and need the same products.

Tom Ford

MenSimpleThinkBetterYouLook

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