Chiwetel Ejiofor Quotes

I don't get that many scripts. Back in Australia, I've pretty much done my own shows and really no work outside of that. It's only now that I'm starting to read some Hollywood film scripts, and I've read some really great ones.

I'm sure it's not great fun for them, or for any parent, when their child says they want to be an actor, 'cos it's quite an uncertain business and it can be terribly hard for most actors.

I'm reading scripts just like everybody else. Tin cup in hand, knocking on doors, trying to get a job. It's tough. They don't make as many films these days, and there's a lot of guys that are fighting for jobs.

I did audition a lot. One's agent is keen to get you into film and TV because there's more money. I was always getting myself into commitments to theatre companies.

I am very happy being an actor. I am doing very well for myself in the acting profession. I am not going to join politics.

My career has been a roller coaster ride. And every actor experiences that phase.

Everyone in L.A. talks about getting an agent or a manager in terms of getting on a sitcom or getting on a movie or doing something else.

Living in L.A., I was embarrassed to say that I wanted to be an actor.

I'm not one of those actors where filmmakers that I admire ask me to be in their movies. I meet them at parties and they're nice to me, but they never ask me to work with them.

Ninety-eight per cent of actors who actually make a living do so in front of a camera.

Trying to constantly get yourself into movies is extremely stressful and sometimes just impossible.

Thank God for television. I've been able to consistently work in television even when people say, 'Oh my God, I haven't seen you since this film or that project.' At least I'm working. It's very difficult to get that next movie role. I'm grateful to have the television world accept me.

When I realized that you can't necessarily be cast in a really great part living in Austin, even when Hollywood comes to town, I got a demo reel together and headed out west.

As a theater actor I always wondered, 'Is there a place for me in Hollywood?'

I'm an actor. My life as an actor depends on who sends me what. I'm just taking the best stuff that I can find that's sent my way, regardless of how big or little the paycheck is.

Actors never retire, they just get less and less work.

I just did one movie and there was no career for me, anyway.

As an actor, it's much easier for me to get work in the movies because nobody knows who I am except for the work that I've done in another movie. I really enjoy that.

T.V. acting is a great skill to have, and it's nice to have that stability.

I don't have any desire to ever act again full time.

I am one of those people who is not very patient in the makeup chair. I have been offered movies like 'Planet of the Apes' and stuff like 'The Grinch Who Stole Christmas' and I turned them down.

I watched a lot of movies when I was younger and I remember, when I was seven years old, I asked my parents if I could have an agent for Christmas.

Acting is a tough business to break into.

When I started in films, it never really occurred to me that I could make a career out of acting.

Movie stars have careers - actors work, and then they don't work, and then they work again.