Chiwetel Ejiofor Quotes About Character

Quotes about: Character

• It's a strange thing, but you get this click in your brain; the wonderful feeling that the entirety of a character is suddenly available and accessible to you.

  Chiwetel Ejiofor

  Character, Feelings, Brain

• I enjoy doing everything, comedy and drama. I just look for the characters really and what they offer.

  Chiwetel Ejiofor

  Drama, Character, Looks

  "Talking With Chiwetel Ejiofor". The Washington Post Live Q&As, www.washingtonpost.com. April 1, 2008.

• I think I enjoy working obviously as a lead, but also you know I feel I'm also a character actor as well, so I enjoy approaching various projects in all sort of capacities. Any film I have been able to do I feel very fortunate to have been a part of.

  Chiwetel Ejiofor

  Character, Thinking, Actors

  "Talking With Chiwetel Ejiofor". The Washington Post Live Q&As, www.washingtonpost.com. April 1, 2008.

• I've often had the fortune to work on projects with a small theme I find very interesting enough to pursue and to be passionate about in the context of the story, then it may turn out there's a universality about my character which still resonates with many people as well.

  Chiwetel Ejiofor

  Character, People, Interesting

  Source: aalbc.com

• I think a lot of acting is about the removal of self-consciousness. The actor is going to be in front of a lot of people, and will naturally feel self-conscious. So a lot of the preparation for that is the removal of that idea. Like you embody or are connected to this character, therefore you can present this character in a way that eventually, when you come back to see it, you feel not exactly ashamed of.

  Chiwetel Ejiofor

  Character, Thinking, People

  Source: film.avclub.com

• When you're no longer seeing yourself, in some ways. You're as close to being as you can be.I suppose that's consistent with the moment that the mind actually turns off, and is no longer questioning what you're doing. When the questions stop, that's when the real acting takes over. And trying to get to the point where the questions stop, "Would I do this? How do I feel about that as a character?" When those stop, and it's just doing X, Y, and zed, because that's what you'd do as this character, because you're inside this character somehow - that's when it really kicks off.

  Chiwetel Ejiofor

  Real, Character, Mind

  Source: film.avclub.com

• Once you click into a character, to a certain degree, you can do a lot else. You can do other stuff, then come back and click right into the character. It's sort of funny that way, the way the mind works. Once it's there, it's sort of there. For the stage, for example, all through the day, you're not onstage. You're living your life, la-la-la, then the lights go down, then boom! All of a sudden, you're in this thing. There's a kind of reflex muscle trigger that happens, and all of a sudden you're back into the role. It's just getting there in the first place that's tricky.

  Chiwetel Ejiofor

  Character, Live Your Life, Mind

  Source: film.avclub.com

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