Chiwetel Ejiofor Quotes

When you have a play, you have to be on every night.

Theater, because of the commitment, it has to be a great role and a great play to me. It takes a lot out of you.

I did a lot of theatre.

Theatre is where my passion lies - I just love it. I love watching it, and I love doing it.

So I find the fascination, the love, the incredible skill and everything to do with acting, writing plays, and doing them, just darling. Lovely. I love actors.

I like to act. Every other aspect of show business I find uninteresting.

I come from a family of actors. My grandfather was like a Laurence Olivier with the Comedie Francaise. Since I was four I went every week to the Comedie Francaise. My aunt and grandmother were there, but my grandfather was a big star.

I was definitely a thespian of sorts in elementary school. I went to a real small private school, and every year, I participated in the talent shows and the school plays - all of 'em.

By 15, I was lucky enough to find the theater.

The stage calls my name.

I am auditioning again - getting back to theatre would be amazing.

I will never leave the theater. My heart is there, and I love being on stage 8 times a week.

I started acting because I enjoyed school plays.

I love doing theater. That's where my home is.

The stage is my first love.

I played Big Mama in 'Cat on a Hot Tin Roof' when I was 20 years old at the University of Michigan.

I did plays in grade school.

I have so much respect for people in the theater. You can't do 10 or 15 takes. It's all live. It's like life in motion.

I realized I really enjoyed theatre, so I did shows up in Seattle like 'To Kill a Mockingbird' and 'Lost in Yonkers.'

I had an interest, for as long as I could remember, in theater.

I love acting and I have a lot of fun.

I love acting. I love performing.

I did some plays in high school which I had a good time doing.

Theatre was my first love. I can't take the theatre out of me. And I wouldn't want to. To me, it's home.

I was in a lot of school plays, and it became the thing I did.