Chiwetel Ejiofor Quotes

I went to drama school in the U.K., where we did endless Chekov plays.

As an actor, to go and see those shows - great plays like 'Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?' and Clifford Odets's 'Golden Boy' - it's so exhilarating. I'd personally love to perform the role of Jerry in Edward Albee's 'The Zoo Story.' He's a transient, lost soul, and an example of humanity at its rawest.

When I first started acting, and we would all sit down and talk about Shakespeare and how great it was. I thought well, I suppose it is.

I went to drama school at NYU for serious acting. So I was doing Chekov and Sam Shepard plays.

You're not going to learn about acting on TV and in film. You'll learn more in plays and in class.

One of the great joys of being an actor is you get to go back to school.

I'm an actor's director. I love it when talented actors can bring characters to life.

It's fatal to talk about acting. It sounds faintly ridiculous if you start analysing it.

Looking at acting, in the movies or the theater, and the way I like to look at it, it's just an extension of childhood play... Kids play and imagine in a very intense fashion and they don't need any director telling them, 'You really have to believe in it.' They believe in it completely.

I've always been in school plays and performing monologues and taking drama. Now I'm in acting classes. I do it the real way. I want to be a working actor. I would love that. I just like being on a series and having a script, and I want that to be my nine-to-five.

I thought the best route to being the great actor I wanted to be was to play the great classical parts.

I think every actor should go back and do theater periodically.

I went to drama school in Paris and started doing theatre with a friend. Then I moved into movies and slowly but surely I got roles.

It's a dream to be in a company of actors.

I feel like my early experiences of acting, and I think a lot of other actors' too, are probably at camp or school plays where you get to have great range. At camp, I remember getting to play a 50-year-old man.

I'm very serious about becoming a dramatic actor. I don't want to play cameo parts walking on as Carl Lewis the athlete. I want to go on stage or screen and be taken seriously.

I'd always dabbled in acting.

I'm an actor. I love to create.

I took theatre and stuff in college, then I took a bunch of different acting classes here in L.A. Sometimes when I have a hard audition, I'll call my acting coach and he'll come help me. I actually get more nervous in acting class than I do at an actual audition. It's actually a really great way to get over your nerves.

You don't become the character.

With plays that require any kind of reading program, I'm reading for a couple of years before using the material.

I needed to do a play. I needed to learn how to act again, in a focused, all-encompassing way, and a really challenging play is a great way to do that.

I'm an actor of the theater.

I did three years training for stage in drama school.

I went to acting school. I went to college for acting.