Chiwetel Ejiofor Quotes

When I got into drama school, that's when I knew that I could safely say that I wanted to be a professional actor.

I started theater when I was three, and I started doing professional acting when I was nine.

I wanted to go to drama school, but when I got the part in 'Falling,' I got an agent, so it seemed a good idea to work. I always did a lot of singing and dancing, so I am glad it worked out that way. I would like to study stage acting at some point, though.

I did a lot of musicals when I was young and finally went to drama school to try and get away from doing musicals... and of course the first thing that happened when I got out is I got offered a musical. And then when I got to the Royal Shakespeare Company, which was my next job, I ended up doing a bloody musical!

I discovered that I wanted to be an actor back when I did my first play in junior high. I've been doing theater in junior high and high school, and I just kept feeding the fire, kept wanting to pursue acting full-on.

I would tell anyone who wanted to be an actor not to bother with drama school.

I was constantly on stage in school, and even while I was pursuing my MBA, I knew that I wanted to eventually become an actor.

I came from a theater background and always wanted to act.

I don't know exactly what kind of training musical theater actors get, but I never had that.

I think in any form of acting, you're always well served if you've done theater.

The wonderful thing about drama school is that it stretches you in a way the industry doesn't.

I got into acting my junior year of high school. We got a new hot drama teacher and I was like 'Alright, I'll try drama.'

When I left drama school, there were dozens of rep theatres you could apply to where you got a good training.

I never had any classes or went to theatre school like a lot of actors, so all of my training has been on stage with different directors. That was a pretty good school room.

I trained as an actor in London and went to Mountview Conservatory, as it was called then, and lived there for eleven years.

Backstage life is terrific training for an actor, seeing shows from the wings.

I think by eighth grade I knew I wanted to be an actor. I'd done church plays and stuff, but my first actual acting class was in eighth grade. I was obsessed with it.

After school, I was planning to jump from regional theater to regional theater.

There is a lot of hype about drama school, I think.

I think I was about 18 before I decided I wanted to pursue acting. I went to drama school in Western Australia when I was 19.

I started acting almost on a whim to help my music career.

Most of my career up until the last couple of years has basically been a training ground for me. Actors that came up in the '50s and '60s, they had the theater, and television was in its infancy.

I'm a stage actor. You know, I was - I cut my teeth on stage, you know. So I've always had a love affair with the stage, first off, what I was raised in, you know.

I'm just a stage actor from Chicago.

I was doing community theater since I was about nine.