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Chiwetel Ejiofor Quotes

It's hard to tell the story if you're not involved yourself, emotionally.

Chiwetel Ejiofor

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

Yourself Story You Hard Tell

I reached the point where I actually enjoyed the umpiring more than playing.

More Point Playing Where Than

You don't stay undefeated without being a little stubborn.

Stubborn You Without Little Stay

I always wanted to play a nun, and to play the Reverend Mother was a thrill of a lifetime for me. But, generations back, my family were not churchgoers, which is an unusual thing in the United States.

Family Mother Me Back Play Always

I've permitted myself to learn and to fail with some regularity. And that is probably the one thing I was given, and that I'm still grateful for.

Myself Grateful Learn Fail One Thing

I like making movies and would like to make it my career when I'm finished playing football.

Football Career Movies Playing Would

It is not talking but walking that will bring us to heaven.

Walking Talking Heaven Will Bring

As a storyteller, you have to have something to say. You have to look at the world, think about it in relationship to yourself, and say, 'I think this is a pattern,' or 'I think this is the way fatherhood works,' or 'I think this is the way first love feels.' The danger in that is, that's when you open yourself up to real critique.

Love Relationship Yourself World You

I don't tend to think of these characters as losers. I like the struggles that people have, people who are feeling like they don't fit into society, because I still sort of feel that way.

People Society Think Feel Feeling

First and foremost arms are tools in the service of rival nations, pointing at the possibility of a future war.

Future Service War Tools First Arms

I've led three lives: the acting part, wife and mother - which is a career - and international relations. I'm proud of my career, the first one, and I'm proud of the other two, too.

Mother Wife Proud Career Acting Two

The part in 'Philadelphia' where I represent the law firm that's firing Tom Hanks, that was a hard part for me because I lost one of my best friends to AIDS, and it was hard for me to play a part that wasn't sympathetic to someone with AIDS.

Mary Steenburgen

Best Me Law Friends Someone Play

I love it and it is a blessing to be able to have seventy-five to eighty episodes to develop a character and find your voice. You have a similar through voice, and yet you are making different decisions, and so you act differently and you make different choices, as that is what your character would do.

Love Character Blessing Choices You

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