Tchidi Chikere

Tchidi Chikere (born 10 October 1975) is a Nigerian film director, producer, scriptwriter, actor, music video director and singer. He has over 100 films and two music albums to his credit. Quotes I felt like dying. I felt like I live in an unfair and mean world where people rub salt on already bleeding injuries. I felt like maybe God was too slow in meting out judgment on evil people like that and so they thrive and do more havoc. But then my manager came and spoke to me. He quoted the Bible in several places and I felt better. I was reassured that God sees all our hearts and that at the right time he would fight for me while I hold my peace. He will not give me up to the will of my enemies and scoffers. I' m not arrogant. I just protect myself, because too many friends bring entanglements, distractions, trouble and betrayals. I don't smile with everybody. I don't believe in having friends upon friends because that wasn't how I was brought up. I grew up basically in my room, reading novels and building worlds of fantasies around myself in my imagination. I love my own company. I'm very close to my father though. I love my daddy to bits. I would describe myself as a very deep person. What works for other folks don't work for me. I guess that accounts for why a lot of people misunderstand me. And when you don't understand something, there arises the need to make up stories to fill in the blank spaces, even if they are lies. What people don't understand is how deeply they hurt other people with these made up stories and how somehow somewhere in this life, they'd pay for every careless word, every careless lie. I have an unshakeable faith in God. I was brought up in a strict catholic home. I was an altar boy at mass and later thought I'd become a priest, but I guess the world of make believe stole me and kept me. I'm human and it has affected me. I haven't written a script in three months. No one knows what I do when I'm alone in my room and take off the celebrity mask I wear in public. Nobody knows how I hurt. We are talking about ten years of my life here. But I'm not going to wear my sadness on my face and die so that haters will laugh. I find consolation in the fact that I still love and respect my family and whatever I do next will be as my happiness dictates. We are all solitary birds in this world, nobody will die with me, whatever will make me happy tomorrow, I will do it, but in all, to respect my family, even as I move on. That is why this will be my last and final interview on this matter.