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Chiwetel Ejiofor

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

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Donna Grant

"Have a chocolate-covered raisin, he said."They look like rat droppings, said the Chair.The Dean peered at them in the gloom."So that's it, he said. "The bag fell on the floor a minute ago, and I thought there seemed rather a lot."

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Donna Grant

"Why do we laugh at such terrible things? Because comedy is often the sarcastic realization of inescapable tragedy."

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Donna Grant

"I wear so many disguises on the show that only a real comedy fan might spot me."

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Donna Grant

"One of my biggest problems with comedy was that I did not understand some of the jokes."

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Donna Grant

"I hate comedy... Yo...-yo bitch."

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Donna Grant

"Now, if you have never been hit by a flying burrito, count yourself lucky. In terms of deadly projectiles, it's right up there with grenades and cannonballs."

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Donna Grant

"98% of all comedians feel obliged to be funny when interviewed. Less than 2% succeed."

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Donna Grant

"Comedy to me has always seemed a social tightrope for the comedian. For all axioms intellectually sound the general public would prefer to be amused, but in those emotionally sound, it then chooses to get offended."

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Donna Grant

"You need to understand that some comedy can have consequences."

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Donna Grant

"I never watch comedies they suck if something sucks it sucks there isn't doubt about it."

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

Comedy

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

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Chiwetel Ejiofor
"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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Chiwetel Ejiofor
"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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Chiwetel Ejiofor
"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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Chiwetel Ejiofor
"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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Chiwetel Ejiofor
"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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Chiwetel Ejiofor
"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."

Acting

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Chiwetel Ejiofor
"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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