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As a child, I was just never that interested in the lives of my favourite actors, like Cary Grant. I do wonder whether knowing too much about someone's personal life interrupts an audience's ability to suspend disbelief, to really invest in the characters. My preference would always be that people engage with the work.

~Chiwetel Ejiofor

Topics: Ability About Actor Always Audience Cary Grant Characters Child Disbelief Engage Favourite Grant Interested Invest Just Knowing Life Like Lives Much Never People Personal Personal Life Preference Really Someone Suspend Too Too Much Whether Wonder Work Would

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Friends at school were always quite shocked that we holidayed in Nigeria, but it was all pretty middle-class, really.

~Chiwetel Ejiofor

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I have an evolving relationship with my father, and his memory, especially the older I get. I know that some of the things that interested him are things that interest me.

~Chiwetel Ejiofor

Topics: Evolving Father Get Him His Interest Interested Know Me Memory Older Relationship Some Things

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I feel that I don't have to wait around for good scripts anymore, that I can get things moving more quickly. I can ring up directors I like and say I'm keen to work with them, which is pretty great.

~Chiwetel Ejiofor

Topics: Anymore Around Directors Feel Get Good Great Keen Like More Moving Pretty Quickly Ring Say Scripts Them Things Up Wait Which Work I Feel I Can

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The inherited tradition is that we don't tell stories about slavery from the perspective of the slave. It's told through the president or the lawyer.

~Chiwetel Ejiofor

Topics: About Inherited Lawyer Perspective President Slave Slavery Stories Tell Through Tradition

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It's a weird thing when you spend your life trying to find these great scripts and great parts. You are reading scripts, you are traveling the world, you are hassling your agent. You are trying to find that script.

~Chiwetel Ejiofor

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From deep in the slave hut is somebody calling over 150 years to all of our experiences and all of our ideas on human respect, and all of our ideas on dignity. And I felt like that's just incredibly powerful.

~Chiwetel Ejiofor

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I think that all the talented filmmakers sort of share, I think, a sense of allowing magic to happen; of creating a stable and secure environment for performers to feel they can push to the end of their ability.

~Chiwetel Ejiofor

Topics: Ability Allowing Creating End Environment Feel Filmmakers Happen Magic Performers Push Secure Sense Share Sort Stable Talented Think I Think

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I started, obviously, doing theater, and I always thought that I would; in a way, I always thought that I'd be a theater actor. When I was starting out, I didn't really plan on making films, actually.

~Chiwetel Ejiofor

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I've just tried to keep my eyes open, tried to read everything you can, and tried to see whether I see myself within it. If I do, then I can get excited about it.

~Chiwetel Ejiofor

Topics: About Everything Excited Eyes Get Just Keep Myself Open Read See Then Tried Whether Within You I See I Can

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Biography

Nationality: British

Type: Actor

Born: July 10th, 1974

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