Find the audience, be excellent, and you will be fine.

I was sometimes called 'coconut' when I was at school.

One of the things I have an allergic reaction to playing, especially as a black actor, is the mandatory kind of best friend/cop/detective type. You will never see me in that movie.

You can’t have people curating culture in this way when we need to see things in order to reform from them.

If you merely focus on what we already know, then it's not revelatory. You may as well just go and watch a documentary or a few videos on Youtube, and you're good.

I don't have a tailor, but I do love clothes.

Excellence is the best weapon against prejudice.

I truly believe that one of the things that has been lacking in the USA is a spirit of repentance about the injustices of slavery and the injustices of segregation and racism generally.

We can't afford to deny our past in a bid to be empowered. But what we can do is contextualize the past.

Considering that I'm British and I talk the way I do, I love it when a director takes a chance on me.

There's a nimble quality to the way a television actor can work. When that muscle gets strong it's a very valuable thing.

To end the greatest work designed, A thousand hands need but one mind.

Perhaps all love stories no matter how varied are essentially the same.

She sighed. “What I wouldn’t give for a civilized bathroom.” Howie remained silent out of habit and also because he didn’t know what a civilized bathroom was.

Since the beginning of time, women have had to fight for what they deserve. I'm proud to be a part of a wave of strong women on TV!

Wherever you're coaching or playing right now is the Big Time

Best wine if you're stranded on a deserted island? 1982 Salon Champagne.

It is not I who die, when I die, but my sin and misery.

It's a struggle for me to watch things I've been in because I'm just distracted and self-critical.

I try to be athletic.

The hardest thing we are asked to do in this world is to remain aware of suffering, suffering about which we can do nothing.