Once you click into a character, to a certain degree, you can do a lot else. You can do other stuff, then come back and click right into the character. It's sort of funny that way, the way the mind works. Once it's there, it's sort of there. For the stage, for example, all through the day, you're not onstage. You're living your life, la-la-la, then the lights go down, then boom! All of a sudden, you're in this thing. There's a kind of reflex muscle trigger that happens, and all of a sudden you're back into the role. It's just getting there in the first place that's tricky.
I think fear is a very healthy motivator. - Chiwetel Ejiofor
I think fear is a very healthy motivator.
- Chiwetel Ejiofor
All roads lead home in the end. You've got to keep that in mind always - in your work and in your life. - Chiwetel Ejiofor
All roads lead home in the end. You've got to keep that in mind always - in your work and in your life.
I'm in favor of anything that promotes greener solutions. - Chiwetel Ejiofor
I'm in favor of anything that promotes greener solutions.
The only way to be an actor is to find ways to work as an actor, even if that means doing a one-man show by a river. - Chiwetel Ejiofor
The only way to be an actor is to find ways to work as an actor, even if that means doing a one-man show by a river.
I have always been very fortunate in my working life in terms of the, I say that like I've not been fortunate at all in my private life. - Chiwetel Ejiofor
I have always been very fortunate in my working life in terms of the, I say that like I've not been fortunate at all in my private life.
I think a lot of acting is about the removal of self-consciousness. The actor is going to be in front of a lot of people, and will naturally feel sel… - Chiwetel Ejiofor
I think a lot of acting is about the removal of self-consciousness. The actor is going to be in front of a lot of people, and will naturally feel sel…
I like to disappear into a role. I equate the success of it with a feeling of being chemically changed. - Chiwetel Ejiofor
I like to disappear into a role. I equate the success of it with a feeling of being chemically changed.
I feel that audiences are very sophisticated, and part of my challenge is to keep them engaged because they are so complex. - Chiwetel Ejiofor
I feel that audiences are very sophisticated, and part of my challenge is to keep them engaged because they are so complex.
Practically everybody I've ever worked with, I'd like to work with again. I had a great time with the people that I've worked with, and the directors… - Chiwetel Ejiofor
Practically everybody I've ever worked with, I'd like to work with again. I had a great time with the people that I've worked with, and the directors…
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