Chiwetel Ejiofor Quotes

My mother taught me that it is important to be prepared for a last-minute polish.

It is not good to cross the bridge before you get to it.

The more prepared I am, the calmer I will be.

I feel like I've mastered what nervousness is, and simply, nervousness is, fearing the future. Or, I like to put it as, thinking about things that you don't want in the future. Normally, artists may think, 'What if my show doesn't go well?' Boom. That's going to cause nervousness.

I was not nervous while making 'Nazar' because I was well prepared. I took three months to prepare. When I went on the sets, I knew what I was doing.

When you prepare for something, it's hard to be nervous.

I took six months to rehearse how I'd ask Shah Rukh Khan if he would launch my debut novel. I thought of 100 ways to ask him. Finally, three weeks before the book hit the stands I went to pop the question and forgot everything I rehearsed.

You can train to be ready for the nerves, and we simulate it all the time, but it's never the same when it actually matters.

I'm not good at planning ahead because it's just too much. I plan, set it up and then don't think about it again until it's almost time. That's just how it goes.

Some people worry. Others prepare.

It's better to be prepared than to get ready.

If things happen all the time you are never nervous. It is when they are not happening that you are nervous.

If I always appear prepared, it is because before entering an undertaking, I have meditated long and have foreseen what might occur. It is not genius which reveals to me suddenly and secretly what I should do in circumstances unexpected by others; it is thought and preparation

Predicting rain doesn't count. Building arks does.

The more prepared I am, the more I'll be in control, less nervous, less stressed and more focused.

The general who wins the battle makes many calculations in his temple before the battle is fought. The general who loses makes but few calculations beforehand.

Worry does not mean fear, but readiness for the confrontation.

Some actors actually think about what they're going to talk about during the interview - they read up and meditate and plan quotes and get all inspired. It's very smart, but it's so planned. I never think to do that.

My feeling is... when you show up to a movie set where there's, like, 50 people standing around and months of preparation gone into it, you want to be as prepared as possible, so you should make a million baguettes. That might not actually help in any explicit way, but it'll make you feel more prepared.

I love getting ready to do a scene, and thinking about it, and talking about it. But the rest of the time, I'm so nervous and obsessed. I'm just tearing my hair out in the trailer. The whole time I'm really tense.

Better three hours too soon than a minute too late.

'Olive Kitteridge' is the only thing that I've done on camera where we had a day of rehearsal before we shot, and I'm so glad that that happened, because I was so nervous.

We can't cross that bridge until we come to it, but I always like to lay down a pontoon ahead of time.

So if you stay ready, you ain't gotta get ready, and that is how I run my life.

I think you start to prepare the minute you read something.