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Chiwetel Ejiofor Quotes

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

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

Life Work Great Me Find Acting

I think every movie changes me and is life changing, especially movies you direct.

Life Me Think You Movies Changes

I think we have cultural bias and practice some ethnocentrism when it comes to ethnic food in America.

Food Practice Think America Bias

To demand that people find their assigned narrow corridors of culture or ethnicity or gender, expecting people to forevermore stay in that lane, is to limit our human potential. It's oppressive.

Culture People Potential Gender Find

My children without a doubt are my greatest accomplishment. If I did nothing else I would feel just having and raising them would be enough. The rest is icing.

Andie MacDowell

Children Rest Accomplishment Enough

Never mind what you've heard. Halle Berry was not the first black woman to win an Academy Award for Best Actress. She was actually the 74th white one. And never mind all this talk about America electing its first black President; Barack Obama is actually the 44th white man to hold the job.

Best Job Woman Man Mind Win

My father would have been spectacularly ill-suited to working for an institution of any kind, and I suspect that, to a lesser degree, that's true of me, too.

Father Me Kind True Degree Working

I don't play computer games. What I do is yell at my secretary and say, 'Go on the Internet, and find this or that.'

Internet Find Play Go Say Games

Wear your clothes with abandon, I say; don't keep them pristine as if for museums: They are meant to wear out. Then you get to buy new ones.

Clothes You New Say Museums Out

Once a refugee, always a refugee. I can't ever remember not being all right wherever I was, but you don't give your whole allegiance to a place or want to be entirely identified with the society you're living in.

Ruth Prawer Jhabvala

Society Remember You Place Living

I love as you come into Paris, you've got the Arch de Triomphe and all that crazy traffic. Then I love the drive from Paris down to Antibes and you veer off east in through the Alps and you come into the south of France on the mountain road as opposed to the freeway.

Love Mountain Crazy Drive Road You

I long to make films. I'm dying to be inside the next film. I always hope there will be another film.

Hope Long Will Inside Dying Always

When my family first moved to Hempstead in the 1960s, they were one of the first black families. It used to be an all-white neighborhood, but there was white flight when the black people with money started moving in. When I was, like, 13 or 14, Hempstead had just become all black, and the poverty became worse and worse.

Family Money People Moving Black

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