Chiwetel Ejiofor Quotes

I love acting. It's the one job I know of where you can go in, go through complete catharsis - emotionally, physically sometimes and mentally - and at the end of the day say, 'See you in the pub, guys.'

I just love acting. Being in theater or being in television or film, I'm really living out my destiny.

Modeling is a lot of fun, but I prefer acting. It's so much fun to get to play different characters and transform into someone else for a while.

I love working with actors, and it's all been based on my being trained in the theater.

I love acting and really taking on another person, another life.

The minute I start to talk about acting, I realize that I can't. You know, it's an abstract thing, a little bit mysterious even if you do it for a living.

I have learned that acting is not about beauty.

It's a strange thing we do as actors. I'm walking out the door, and I'll say, 'O.K., honey, I'm off to take my clothes off.'

I have this assemblage of small facts, which looks like intelligence but no real depth of knowledge about anything. That's why I'm an actor.

Sometimes I think of movie acting as advanced pretend.

I think of myself as an actor. The duty of an actor is to be able to impersonate anything - a child, an old man, a tree, a chair, a woman.

I would absolutely recommend for actors to start in the theater because it establishes a foundation in your craft that you can build off of.

People take years learning how to act; it's a skill, not just a job. If I tried it out and thought I'd be OK, then perhaps I'd go for it, but it's not the kind of thing you can get into just because of your looks.

There is probably some great acting that goes on in movies from people who have never been on a stage, but if you are in for the long haul, you'd be missing an enormous part of what being an actor is if you're not part of theater.

I don't like to intellectualize about my acting.

I'm just an actor. I am nothing special.

I'll always be there because I'm a skilled professional actor. Whether or not I've any talent is beside the point.

In film, you're always using your tools, your body, your voice, your emotions, but onstage, you use them in a different way.

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 an actor and my job is to interpret.

I got into acting for the different scenarios and roles and meeting different people.

To start, I wasn't really interested in acting at all, and I didn't make much impact. The first play I was in was on for five nights and I didn't show up for two of them and nobody noticed. But I stayed because that's where my friends were, and after a while I found myself wanting to inhabit other people's worlds and lives.

I'm an actor, but I'm an artist.

I don't know why every actor doesn't do more plays.

I'm an actor. I love to create.