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Chiwetel Ejiofor Quotes

I had done a couple of auditions for 'Amistad' and didn't feel it was going to go any further - and then the call came about heading to Los Angeles to work with Steven Spielberg. It was surreal: exciting, challenging, overwhelming.

Chiwetel Ejiofor

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

Work Feel Los Angeles Go Done Going

Stubborn isn't a word I would use to describe myself; pigheaded is more appropriate.

Michael Bloomberg

Myself Stubborn More Would Word Use

Stage performing is a dying art form.

Ronnie Spector

Art Dying Stage Performing Form

My quest, through the magic of light and shadow, is to isolate, to simplify, and to give emphasis to form with the greatest clarity.

Ruth Bernhard

Light Shadow Magic Clarity Simplify

I'm attracted to things that make a point or have a certain point of view, but it's not a conscious thing that I decide to do every morning. Unconsciously, what I like has a social commentary in it, or it's about race, or it's risky to do. That's what I like doing.

Jason Blum

Morning View Doing Point Of View

My bag is acting or getting into an amusing situation and then sharing my amusement.

Dean Jones

Bag Acting Situation Sharing Amusing

I'd rather somebody punch me in the face than drop my sax.

Clarence Clemons

Me Face Punch Drop Somebody Rather

We're trying to do the thing you don't expect out of country music. Which is to say, 'Go see the world.'

Brad Paisley

Music World Trying You Country Go

You want to free the world, free humanity, from oppression? Look inside, look sideways, look at the hidden violence of language. Never forget that language is where the other, parallel violence, the cruelty exercised on the body, originates.

Ariel Dorfman

World Free Language You Body Look

Can you tell a plain man the road to heaven? Certainly, turn at once to the right, then go straight forward.

William Wilberforce

Man Road Forward You Heaven Go

I think I would do a much better job if I had a chance to do things that were edgier than I get to do in comedies.

Seann William Scott

Job Chance Think Better Things Get

I was a loser in high school.

Seann William Scott

School High School Loser High

Family life is too intimate to be preserved by the spirit of justice. It can be sustained by a spirit of love which goes beyond justice.

Reinhold Niebuhr

Life Family Love Justice Beyond