Carmen Ejogo Quotes

I don't even like watching sex scenes in movies. I have a slight prudish side to me.

No padlocks, bolts, or bars can secure a maiden better than her own reserve.

Journalists ask me, 'Why don't you ever talk about sex in your performances?' True, I don't talk about sex - not in my personal life and not in my professional life. This is modesty.

I am a bit prudish, I think. It's hard for me to write about sex, and I don't really care to read about it, either.

I wasn't turning down film roles, let's put it that way. I was never really on that radar.

I'm prudish.

I'm not running about playing romantic leads. I don't know if that's a good or a bad thing, but it's the way it's sort of working out.

I didn't want to do film or commercials or television.

First of all, I choose the great roles, and if none of these come, I choose the mediocre ones, and if they don't come, I choose the ones that pay the rent.

I never really planned a career. I've tried to avoid it. I've tried to do this stuff I felt for, the stuff I like. So, I've just been meeting these fantastic directors who've offered me a variation of different parts and different films.

Modesty used to be considered a natural female attribute. No more.

After 'Melancholia' and 'On the Road,' I wanted to do a comedy. And I did so many comedies when I was younger, but if you're not consistently in those movies, people don't always think of you for them.

I was always interested in films and thought that was the path I should go down, but I didn't start pursuing acting until I was 17.

Modesty is not only an ornament, but also a guard to virtue.

I could've ended up in action films forever. But the comedy thing has been my forte.

I'm trying to mix the cool, independent stuff with the big stuff, but it's been difficult finding the right roles. It's been an interesting ride as far as my career pendulum is concerned.

I do say no to things that I think are completely gratuitous.

After 'Mad Men,' I got offered various types of uptight Englishmen, which I wasn't interested in doing. I didn't want to repeat myself.

Never seem wiser, nor more learned, than the people you are with. Wear your learning, like your watch, in a private pocket: and do not merely pull it out and strike it; merely to show that you have one.

For me, I think you make a choice what kind of actor you want to be, and then it's kind of the material you choose.

Your choices are very important. The only thing you have as actors are your choices: the option to say no to something. You don't want to take on a really bad job and be terrible in something - especially in film, because if you're bad in it, you're bad in it forever.

You know I was always looking out for age appropriate roles.

I want to do more Tollywood projects but I don't go around asking for roles.

If you see my filmography, I have mostly done non-glamorous roles.

There is a fine line between being glamorous and vulgar. I am open to glam roles as long as they don't look vulgar on screen.