Skip to content

There’s a lot more opportunity to be a person of color, to be a woman, and to be at the center of the storytelling.

— Carmen Ejogo

Another quote →

Topics

Women

More quotes by Carmen Ejogo

Any good director, and I've worked with a few that I would call very good, they know how to disarm any anxieties very quickly.

I can remember being very keen to go to drama school at the age of eight, and practising ballet in my bedroom to Queen soundtracks.

Great artists are the ones who have put their entire selves out there to be adored, humiliated, to be picked at, cherished, all of those things, and haven't shied away from that.

you need to be able to step outside yourself, and you don’t necessarily need to have real-life experiences to draw upon.

One of the reasons I didn't ever pursue a career - in the music world if you're black or mixed, you need to be able to belt a song or else you're not a singer, you know?

All Carmen Ejogo quotes →

You may also like

The worker is the slave of capitalist society, the female worker is the slave of that slave.

James Connolly

There is a Lady sweet and kind,
Was never face so pleased my mind;
I did but see her passing by,
And yet I love her till I die.

Thomas Ford

To call woman the weaker sex is a libel; it is man's injustice to woman.

Mahatma Gandhi

We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men and women are created equal.

Elizabeth Cady Stanton

Attribution

Quote text and notes from Wikiquote: Carmen Ejogo (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0. Source quality and labels are our own summary of what Wikiquote records.