Carmen Ejogo Quotations

I come alive when I'm painting. I like to work in oils and acrylics, and the full sensory engagement and self-expression is very stimulating to me.

Intelligence starts to get pretty dull if it's not coupled with kindness.

I feel like I was born an actor. I did not pursue acting until I was a bit older. But I got a taste of it at an earlier age in the UK.

I was not seduced by the celebrity side of acting. However, as a British girl watching a lot of American TV, I saw that there was a whole world of opportunity in the States that I wanted to discover.

The Hollywood culture is so invasive, and I definitely wanted to be near it eventually.

At times as an actor, it's often times unclear as to what the directors envision for a project.

I'm guessing that musicals didn't make sense anymore because of the changes in the political environment that began in the late Sixties, an era of self-awareness and social revolutions.

Musicals are finally kind of coming back to a degree, perhaps out of a sense of nostalgia.

There are many mediocre entertainers who don't aspire to much more than fame and glory. It's very easy to have them as your role models because there aren't as many greats.

The great fear I've had to overcome is the fear of failure. It can be safer to stay in a comfort zone that's not stretching yourself.