I feel television is in a fantastically rich vein of what it's presenting both by opportunity to actors and to audiences.

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.

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

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.

You raise the level of universal well-being by choosing to focus with gratitude on your blessings.

We each contribute our own book to the great library of humanity.

The shortest path is not always the fastest.

Age is a case of mind over matter. If you don't mind, it don't matter.

The force of passion is balanced by the force of interest.

I feel really lucky that I love my job. I really do.

You don't have to be a genius to find the hidden potential deep in your mind.

I have a good face for what I do.

What doctor does not need platform heels and dark black eyeliner to treat their patients?

I don't think there is a role that I did twenty years ago that I couldn't do better now.