Chiwetel Ejiofor Quotes

As an actor, you express certain things because they need to be expressed, and then you don't really feel a need to do it again. I want to feel something else, you know?

Chiwetel Ejiofor

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• The eulogy virtues are the ones that are talked about at your funeral - whether you were kind, brave, honest or faithful. Were you capable of deep love? I want to foster eulogy virtues when I'm in a yoga class or meditation session or any spiritual gathering. Especially if I'm lying in corpse pose. It just makes sense.

  

  Maggie Rowe
  • Spiritual
  • Brave
  • Honest

• I'm the C.E.O., nominated by the shareholders. If they're not happy, I have to take the consequences.

  

  Carlos Ghosn
  • Happy
  • Take
  • Consequences

• You know, most people, they want to go to Hollywood. They want to be a star. They want to be a rock star. That thought never entered any of our minds, the Van Halen family.

  

  Eddie Van Halen Van Halen
  • People
  • Family
  • Rock

• Sometimes I'm not even aware of some of the issues going on with me in my life until I sit down and start kind of looking for inspiration, trying to find something that inspires that creativity.

  

  Sam Hunt
  • Life
  • Inspiration
  • Creativity

• When you go into a game on offense, you make a couple moves and see what the defender is going to do. Then you pretty much can figure out what he is going to do against you - whether he carries his hands low or high, whether he is bumping or pushing, those type of things.

  

  Oscar Robertson
  • High
  • Game
  • Pretty

• Arianna Huffington has exercised her renowned wisdom to give journalism another boost along the ever busier Internet. Her blog site promises to be an interesting challenge for those of us lucky enough to be invited to participate with our occasional contributions.

  

  Walter Cronkite
  • Interesting
  • Wisdom
  • Challenge

• When I was born, my parents were huge into skiing. I grew up on Mont Blanc, skiing on that hill. I was really a ski baby. Loved it; I still love it.

  

  Patrick Chan
  • Parents
  • Baby
  • Born

• I don't golf. I've never golfed. I will never golf.

  

  Malcolm Gladwell
  • Never
  • Golf
  • Will

• A lot of people are surprised to hear that an actor studied for two or three years. They take the craft for granted and wanna just wake up and be an actor.

  

  Taylor Kitsch
  • People
  • Up
  • Wake Up

• Life is the flower for which love is the honey.

  

  Victor Hugo
  • Life
  • Love
  • For Her

• I'm an actor, and when I close the door at home I'm kind of off-duty.

  

  Warwick Davis
  • Home
  • Kind
  • Door

• There are a lot of funny people in my family. Absolutely. There were a lot of jokes growing up around the dinner table, for sure. We didn't grow up in a creative family.

  

  Nate Corddry
  • People
  • Up
  • Family

• As usual the Liberals offer a mixture of sound and original ideas. Unfortunately none of the sound ideas is original and none of the original ideas is sound.

  

  Harold MacMillan
  • Ideas
  • Sound
  • Original

• I don't expect to find inspiration. It just sort of comes. Sometimes you step on a bug and you get inspired.

  

  Iris Apfel
  • Inspiration
  • Bug

• What happened in the past can help you know what's going to happen in the future. That insight brings a next level of intelligence not just to sales and marketing but to ERP, where you can save more money in procurement or figure out whether the people you recruit are going to be successful in your organization.

  

  Safra A. Catz
  • People
  • Money
  • Help

• Form is, in a way, death. A novelist's obligation is to break free from the form, even though he knows that this will also be seen as artificial and distanced from life.

  

  Karl Ove Knausgaard
  • Life
  • Death
  • Free

• I studied writing at NYU. I graduated high school in Nashville and then went to the creative writing program, and in the first year, that's when I wrote 'Kids.'

  

  Harmony Korine
  • Writing
  • School
  • Kids

• Christy Turlington is my idol. She really is. She's a gorgeous woman inside and out. I admire her work in the charity field. She's just been able to balance it all - and gracefully, as well.

  

  Karlie Kloss
  • Work
  • She
  • Woman

• We need to work together to help Africans address critical issues such as health and education, governance, water and agriculture, trade and investment and peace and security.

  

  Jean Chretien
  • Help
  • Education
  • Health

• I would never know how good I was if I didn't have Bob Arum. Bob Arum is white, Jewish; He was working for prosecutor's office. I'm black, an ex-convict, ex-number runner. Who would be most likely to succeed? It would be Bob 100-1. Yet I beat Bob on everything we ever done, with love.

  

  Don King
  • Good
  • Done
  • Black

• I don't ever want to lose that mind-set where you've got to be able to realize different ideas-slash-fantasies-slash-possibilities in your life.

  

  Charlie Trotter
  • Life
  • Different
  • Mind

• There is a legitimate role for development education in the UK, but I do not believe these projects give the taxpayer value for money.

  

  Andrew Mitchell
  • Believe
  • Money
  • Education

• The best football players in the world still earn very little money compared to people who really earn money.

  

  Arsene Wenger
  • People
  • World
  • Football

• As an actor, you express certain things because they need to be expressed, and then you don't really feel a need to do it again. I want to feel something else, you know?

  

  Chiwetel Ejiofor