You're always looking for roles and other creatives who are going to be challenging to you, because you're always a better actor after the experience.

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.

The loneliest place to spend eternity is your own life after you can't change it anymore."--Lucifer from Kevin

It hurt her to stir up these feelings, but yet she knew that that was the best part of her soul, and that that part of her soul would quickly be smothered in the life she was leading.

All nature wears one universal grin.

It has been well said that a hungry man is more interested in four sandwiches than four freedoms.

Through the Fellows Program, Acumen Fund prepares future global leaders with the tools necessary to drive significant social change.

Something about giving himself over to a woman was worse than having lunch with the devil.

I love the energy of children. It makes me feel young. I'm just drawn to them. They're like magic to me. And they're drawn to me, the childlike part of me that never did grow up.

We are never less alone than when we are in the society of a single, faithful friend; never less deserted than when we are carried in tne arms of the All-Powerful.

An actor can remember his briefest notice well into senescence and long after he has forgotten his phone number and where he lives.

I don't know how women will feel safe.