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.

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

If you’re looking for family entertainment, don’t study history or prehistory.

Go with the ebbs and the flows, and allow this non-resistance to guide us to contentment.

Nearly all the things I do that are of any merit at all start off just being good fun.

I was carrying two cargoes. Yes, one of them was horror, but the other one was hope.

I have to wonder at what point the people fighting to protect marriage will realize that traditional couples haven't exactly been doing too good a job of it so far.

All of my marriages lasted seven years.

Undoubtedly, prayer requires a living faith in God. Successful satyagraha is inconceivable without that faith.

You can only have one first born child. You may love all your children deeply and with passion, but there is something unique about the first born.

The past shouts at you, the ugly words or actions echo down across the years.

I stopped painting in 1990 at the peak of my success just to deny people my beautiful paintings. And I did it out of spite.