Quotes by Chiwetel Ejiofor

"I was the classic middle child in some ways, the one who could have been a priest in an alternate universe."

"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."

"The idea of making a film - a film that I had certainly never seen before - about the slave experience was a huge responsibility. It's a project that requires a wider understanding of the geopolitical nature of the slave trade, of historical and modern-day racism."

"I wanted to be an actor ever since I got on stage for the first time, aged 13. Before that, I thought I might follow in the medical footsteps of my parents: my father was a doctor, my mother a pharmacist."

"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."