Chiwetel Ejiofor Quotes

If you only take parts that are offered to you, you end up playing the same roles over and over again. I think it's important to keep auditioning. I think it's important to scare yourself; to take parts that are outside of your comfort zone.

I think the only way it has influenced me is to cause me to try to branch out and do other things. So that people will know that I am reaching out and trying to be a little more versatile. So they realize he is not a "Dirty Harry." He doesn't advocate martial law or mayhem -it's a character.

I've become so earthy. And I never was earthy. I'm doing all kinds of different roles which are not at all like the intellectual and the legal mind of Ben Stone.

It's always been fun for me to play a variety of parts, and over the years, I've been lucky with the things I've been asked to do.

I'm trying to play parts which are a little more out there, but I want variety.

I like challenges. That's why if I read a script, and I feel, 'Oh, I can't do this,' I'll take that role, because if I feel like, 'Oh, I can do this,' I don't want to take that because I can't learn from that film.

I try to avoid typecasting by doing different roles.

I sometimes want to do totally different roles. I don't always want to play 'wholesome.'

I think, as an actress, people get on your case if you do the same thing over and over again. But if you get too far away from that, people don't like that, either.

When I started acting, I made a conscious decision that I wanted to be a character read and not a leading man. I didn't want to do the same thing again and again. I wanted to push and challenge myself. I find and embrace new and unique challenges in all mediums.

I like the full spectrum of roles.

As an actor, I do not want to stick to a particular route.

Being an actress, I want to play people that are not like me or the characters I've previously played. It's easier to get roles if you play a certain type of character but I don't want to do that.

In the beginning, I got different kind of roles, and then I realised it's great to be that way. And that thought is always there before signing a film.

I've always played variety of roles and don't want to get typecast.

I don't want to limit myself as an actor alone.

I remember on my very first film, which Steven Soderberg executive-produced, he said, 'Try not to repeat yourself. Do things that scare you.' Even if it's a challenge, I want people to say that this guy tried this thing. Hopefully he learned from it.

I love experimenting and doing new things in life, and if things fall into place, I'm ready to take up acting, too.

I got to try things that I might've been uncomfortable doing if I had been in a larger setting with a studio and producers looking at me.

I learned to always take on things I'd never done before. Growth and comfort do not coexist.

That's a big part of my life - doing things that I'm not prepared to do. Doing things that I don't know how to do, and keep doing them until I get good at them. I always try to put myself out of my comfort zone and out of my depth, and hopefully somewhere along the line I'll catch up.

If we are not a little bit uncomfortable every day, we're not growing. All the good stuff is outside our comfort zone.

The best things happen at the exit ramp of your comfort zone.

I've always wanted to do all kinds of roles, dramatic roles and comedic roles, all kinds of roles.

I constantly get out of my comfort zone. Looking cool is the easiest way to mediocrity. The coolest guy in my high school ended up working at a car wash. Once you push yourself into something new, and whole new world of opportunities opens up. But you might get hurt. In fact you WILL get hurt. But amazingly when you heal - you are somewhere you've never been.