I know for a fact the reason I'm an actor is because one, two, maybe three people when I was younger saw something that I did, in youth theater or some small play somewhere, and said, "You're good."

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.

Organization charts and fancy titles count for next to nothing.

Substantiate or suffocate, Ms. Vetra. Mickey's ticking.

jealously lives with insecurity!

I'm writing this book because we're all going to die.

I'm looking forward to the future, which is a good thing, because it's coming.

When we play games, our brains respond differently to stress and obstacles. We're better able to control our attention and ignore distractions.

They think that nothing will happen because they have closed their doors, and they do not know that it is in the soul that things always happen, and that the world does not end at their housedoor.

Children are born with their own optimism. They have a clarity and a simplicity that we can only wish for.

The more we empty ourselves, the more room we give God to fill us.

This would have been less annoying had it been untrue.