New York is vibrant, sexy, naughty, always surprising, and has great live music and great fashion.

I always get this feeling on my last day of work that I'm never going to work again.

When I think about my children and how different their futures might be as a result of climate change, it makes me determined to do something about it.

Art is all about the experience. I could say I dont really relate to opera, but then you watch Placido Domingo, and you go, Blimey, look at that.

At school, I was the classroom clown - I was always being thrown out for being naughty. Before I left, a teacher called me in and suggested I became an actor.

I grew up in Birmingham, but my parents are originally from Barbados. My dad, Romeo, was a long-distance lorry driver, and my mother, Mayleen, worked in catering.

For all its problems, I found South Africa a beautiful country, interesting and inspiring.

Normally for work I will fly business class.

Working at the National Theatre is just wonderful. There is no place like the South Bank on a summer's afternoon.

Forget fashion, dress for comfort and for ease of getting through security, so no hats, belts or unnecessary accessories.

Fatherhood is a joy. I feel very lucky to have a family. It gives you a perspective on things.

There are some wounds unreachable by words, some sins immune to apology.

Make requests, not demands. "Please" kill that zombie, honey, I'm out of bullets.

Faculty Meetings are held whenever the need to show off is combined with the imperative of accomplishing nothing.

Sometimes I try my hand at turning out small profundities and uncertain short stories, but I always end up with just one single word: God.

I think that the vice president is a person reflecting a half-glass-full mentality.

As long as I can get angry then I play well. If I play well I can beat everybody. I am happy because I am getting angry.

I think that money spoils most things, once it becomes the primary motivating force.

Religion is only the illusory sun which revolves round man as long as he does not revolve round himself.

Good morning. You have a moment?" It's clever the way she says it, not as a question. I would have to contradict her in order to have my moment back. I make a note to use the method in the future.

'The Simpsons' is about alienation and the ambivalence of living with a family who you love but who drive you completely crazy.