Chiwetel Ejiofor Quotes

Normally, if you're lucky, the idea of a film you have in your head is more or less what you get back when you see it after the editing and the whole post-production process.

Chiwetel Ejiofor

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

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Unless I have to, I can't take a job for the money. Unless my children are going to be out on the street, I have to be a little bit picky.

Jean Smart

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Sometimes you learn more from films that aren't terribly successful and, indeed, sometimes you learn more from real disasters than you do from the ones that succeed.

John Rhys-Davies

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In the small remaining journey of life that I have left, I want to choose who I want to be with and to hang around.

Stewart Rahr

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My mother dropped us off at a foster care centre when I was just two. But my grandmother ended up fighting for us and winning custody of us. We didn't have much, but she gave us character.

Tori Bowie

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I'll work with a director if I think I'm going to get into a comfortable situation, and if it's someone I respect and who respects me, even if they're not so well known. Movies are hard to make, and you have to work toward a common ethic and do your best.

Robert De Niro

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When a game comes around, that's the time to be serious. During the week, the training sessions are serious, but away from there, you have to relax and switch off.

Diego Costa

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My earliest memories of my mom were of her multi-tasking - preparing dinner while checking on homework and housework; clearing the dinner plates while setting out bowls for breakfast; making sure we ate our breakfast while lining up bread, lunch meats, apples, and snacks assembly-line style so we could make our lunches.

Christine Pelosi

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When you transition, everyone kind of has to transition around you.

Chaz Bono

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I don't get high, but sometimes I wish I did. That way, when I messed up in life I would have an excuse. But right now there's no rehab for stupidity.

Chris Rock

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I believe, with the media, you must answer every question in some way. And in very, very, touchy situations, we must answer every question again and again.

Colman Domingo

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We were in the Arabian Desert for nine months. And I was having the time of my life. It could have been an archeological expedition, a military expedition.

Peter O'Toole

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It's sad, the lottery. Good projects get funded by it, but there's an air of desperation about it.

Nina Conti

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