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We always want to live in an environment where there's no artificial block to good work.

~Chiwetel Ejiofor

Topics: Always Artificial Block Environment Good Good Work Live Want Where Work

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I still have to say that I did 'Dirty Pretty Things' 11 years ago. That was a very sudden shift in my life and my relationship to my work, and it didn't feel it was impossible to make a film like that.

~Chiwetel Ejiofor

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There's a catharsis in cutting down trees. But there's absolutely none of that in picking cotton. It's maddening! It's fiddly, and it pricks your fingers, and it's something that's a very hard skill if you have no alacrity for it.

~Chiwetel Ejiofor

Topics: Absolutely Catharsis Cotton Cutting Down Fingers Hard None Picking Skill Something Trees Very You Your

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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

Topics: Actor Again Because Certain Certain Things Else Express Expressed Feel Know Need Really Something Something Else Then Things Want You

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We take it for granted sometimes that certain parts of our history are told, and we take it for granted that we know all that stuff, and we move forward along on that basis, but there are also massive gaps, and we have to try to address them.

~Chiwetel Ejiofor

Topics: Address Along Also Basis Certain Forward Gaps Granted History Know Massive Move Move Forward Our Parts Sometimes Stuff Take Them Try

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I am struck by how, walking down the street, I'm rarely made aware of my race, but that among journalists, race is absolutely massive.

~Chiwetel Ejiofor

Topics: Absolutely Am Among Aware Down How Journalists Made Massive Race Rarely Street Struck Walking I Am

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I've always liked the idea of being a father. And I've always romanticised it, because I lost my father when I was young. In a way, all of the complications that come with my career are about that.

~Chiwetel Ejiofor

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The Second World War simplified things like race, and people came down on very clear lines.

~Chiwetel Ejiofor

Topics: Came Clear Down Like Lines People Race Second Second World War Things Very War World World War

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I was attracted to 'Half of a Yellow Sun' because of the story.

~Chiwetel Ejiofor

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There are many different ways the public can respond to actors - they can see you on TV and feel they know you and own you, and there can be something quite cornering about that.

~Chiwetel Ejiofor

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Biography

Nationality: British

Type: Actor

Born: July 10th, 1974

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