Working at BBC, at the head of one of the top dramas, is a tradition for great actors.

Waking up in TRUTH is so much better than living in a lie.

What an honor it was to step into the shoes of Nelson Mandela and portray a man who defied odds, broke down barriers, and championed human rights before the eyes of the world.

I want to go to Sierra Leone with something - whether it's some sort of contribution to healthcare, or to the entertainment industry. My cousin is a nurse; we are talking about opening a clinic.

I'm never shaken or stirred.

My Father always told me that a fool at 40 is a fool for life.

I was always a real athletic kid. Then when I got older, I just figured it was part of life to keep training.

The less I talk about being black, the better.

I've been DJing mostly, and most DJs end up producing. That's just me.

I knew that if I wanted to be all I could be, I would have to go to the US. It took three years to get the accent right.

I'm tactile, very tactile. A woman who has really nice, looked-after skin is such a turn-on for me. It's always sexy.

Sometimes, in a daze, they completely dismantled the cadaver, then found themselves hard put to it to fit the pieces together again.

You can't develop the world but you can develop your world because the world will one day fall but your world will always walk with you where ever you go.

A man who discovers his pants are on fire tends to have very little time to worry about somebody else's box of matches

The nice thing about anger is that, as an emotion, it's strong enough to unplug me from the comedian's mind for a minute and just be a frustrated member of the citizenry.

Debt is a prolific mother of folly and of crime.

On the other hand, permanent causes produce helplessness far into the future, and universal causes spread helplessness through all your endeavors.

The marriage of convenience has this to recommend it: we are better judges of convenience than we are of love.

If you're a misanthrope you stay at home. There are certain writers who really don't like other people. I'm not like that, I don't think.

I just love biography, and I'm fascinated by people who have shifted our destinies or our points of view.

Purity is the power to contemplate defilement.