Chiwetel Ejiofor Quotes
I like to disappear into a role. I equate the success of it with a feeling of being chemically changed. That's the only way I can express it.
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I started writing half a paragraph of a mystery novel, half a paragraph there, and they were terrible.
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There were many years when I was hand-to-mouth and didn't know how I was gonna make rent. I've done every job under the sun, from busing tables, temping, and working in factories to SAT prep and detailing cars. So to be able to make a living where all I do is write is absolutely liberating.
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Running for office was definitely something I've thought about. When I was younger, I wanted to major in political science. And I've been engaged in current events since I was a kid. If I can make a difference and feel passionately and capable, then I would. Why not?
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I have this kind of mild nice-guy exterior, but inside my heart is like a steel trap.
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There's a fast-track if you can do the networking. For some personalities it works, but for mine it doesn't.
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I loved London. In the 1970s... it was very exciting, really wild.
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As a viewer, the minute I start getting confused, I check out of the movie. Emotionally, I'm severed.
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We're also fairly stubborn, I think, fairly independent. We have our share of difficulties with our federal government, although I've tried to as I am here encourage a better way of discussing those problems.
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Novelists want to be published and need a publisher to decide to print 20,000 copies. So you need to entertain on some level. I want to reach out and connect.
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As an actor, I want to build a career as an actor. It's hard to even get a job sometimes, so as my career builds, I can be more picky than I used to be.
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I want to be judged by who I am, not by a relationship.
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I tell fans who ask me why I'm not doing comedy anymore that I'm a different person. I've grown and I've matured. I've made a transition to where I really want to be.
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Kids will ask us 'How do you become famous?' It's the wrong question. Focus on the craft, not on the fame.
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If I wanted to know what a certain future would feel like to me, I would find someone who is already living that future. If I wonder what it's like to become a lawyer or marry a busy executive or eat at a particular restaurant, my best bet is to find people who have actually done these things and see how happy they are.
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What I'm trying to do is get a change in the mindset so people move from a level of mere tolerance to total acceptance and eventually to celebrate diversity. If you feel comfortable with one another, it doesn't matter whether we live in which neighbourhood but we can interact with one another freely. It's a mindset.
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Korean students are hard working, talented, and they do what they need to do. They succeed in exams. They are highly motivated to succeed in tests.
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Beware, all too often we say what we hear others say. We think what we are told that we think. We see what we are permitted to see. Worse, we see what we are told that we see.
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The experience of being in space didn't change my perspective of myself or of the planet or of life. I had no spiritual experience.
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I think what I'm trying to do is create moments of recognition. To try to detonate some kind of feeling or understanding of lived experience.
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You feel yourself working to show something. I've learned to distrust that feeling.
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That's the way it happens - some characters you set out to use, some are happy accidents. As long as it works, it doesn't really matter how you got them.
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I like to disappear into a role. I equate the success of it with a feeling of being chemically changed. That's the only way I can express it.
