My father, Arinze Ejiofor , was a musician and a doctor. Nobody's ever asked me about that combination and what growing up in that environment was like.

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.

The only way to be an actor is to find ways to work as an actor, even if that means doing a one-man show by a river.

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

I wouldnt be the same actor if I couldnt do theater.

I feel that audiences are very sophisticated, and part of my challenge is to keep them engaged because they are so complex.

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.