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Chiwetel Ejiofor

"When I first had my eyebrows waxed, I was pretty disturbed."

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"When I first had my eyebrows waxed, I was pretty disturbed."

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"We were engaged three-and-a-half weeks after the first date."

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"If you wish to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first invent the universe."

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"It is strange how one feels drawn forward without knowing at first where one is going."

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"The first band I was in, I think was called The Strangers. I got the sack because I was too small!"

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"There is no formula to it. Writing every song is a little journey. The first note has to lift you."

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"If you can take the hot lead enema, then you can cast the first stone."

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"Except during the nine months before he draws his first breath, no man manages his affairs as well as a tree does."

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"When I first heard that song, it was a ballad but it had a lot more. It felt like a gospel song when I first heard it and it just moved me."

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""Think simple" as my old master used to say - meaning reduce the whole of its parts into the simplest terms, getting back to first principles."

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"First you find a little thread, a little thread leads you to a string, and the string leads you to a rope. And from the rope you hang by the neck."

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"Depending on what your interest in theater is, I always recommend working on plays. It's a great way to be introduced to the field, and also a great way to be seen by agents and representation. I'm also a great advocate for studying acting at a drama school or a college."
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"I became an actor by doing school plays and youth theaters, and then National Youth Theatre of Great Britain. And then I did study at the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Arts. For me that was a good way to enter the field, to work in the theater."
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"I was already devouring literature and I was the ripe old age of 15 when I decided to be an actor. I just thought plays were the most fantastic way of expressing life. I thought I'd discovered Shakespeare - 'hey, there's a new guy in town, don't know if anyone's read him.' I was just excited about the whole thing, from day one."
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"This is going to sound completely absurd, but I do sometimes feel like the enjoyment of an awards ceremony or the pride in the finished article hasn't ever surpassed the joy of doing the work, of making it. The doing it is really the bit I'm there for."
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"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."
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"I like to disappear into a role. I equate the success of it with a feeling of being chemically changed. That's the only way I can express it."
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"I enjoy doing everything, comedy and drama. I just look for the characters really and what they offer."
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"David Mamet was great to work with. He was everything that I thought he would be as a director. He's incredibly articulate, an easy collaborator. Extraordinarily knowledgeable about film and writing."
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"I was the classic middle child in some ways, the one who could have been a priest in an alternate universe."
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"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."
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