I like to think of myself as a physical actor.

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.

She was an exotic flower amongst the snowdrifts, out of place, a Technicolor misfit in a monochrome Christmas movie.

Football teaches you hard work. It takes a lot of unspectacular preparation to have spectacular results in both business and football.

Look, how they scold me for all my loving and tippling, now that the silvery edges shine forth from my brow!

I want us to be as good as we say we are and as others think we should be.

Ecology is boring for the same reason that destruction is fun.

I go to him as a baby goes to his mother so that he can fill me and invade all and take me in his arms.

So, I think that's the centerpiece of morality: Don't lie. But to do that, you have to go a step further and find out what the truth is.

Love attracts only one thing and that thing is love.

Perfume is like a parenthesis, a moment of freedom, peace, love and sensuality in between the disturbances of modern living.

The simplest and most effective way to sanctity is to disappear into the background of ordinary every day routine.