I do think opportunity breeds bravery. It's such a competitive profession, no one owes you anything, talent in itself is not enough. I went to drama ….

I gravitate towards anything that feels challenging to me, that feels like it's gonna be saying something a bit different and new to the audience, an….

I think it's vital to have something outside your acting to keep you rooted in the real world, and help you fill the vacuum. If you have nothing else….

I seem to be able to disassociate my insecurities. I know a lot of actors - some of the best actors in the world - can't bear to watch themselves and….

Hate cannot overcome hate; only love can do that..

We can't afford to deny our past in a bid to be empowered. But what we can do is contextualize the past..

My ambition is to keep the audience guessing... that is my path to a long career..

Africa is trying to find its way back to a sense of itself, when much of that was lost through colonization..

Excellence is the best weapon against prejudice..

I would make the tea on a Daniel Day-Lewis set just to observe how he crafts roles like he did in 'My Left Foot.' That was the equivalent of seeing H….

The wonderful situation that I find myself in now, is that choosing the roles I want is more of a reality for me. As a result, I take it very serious….

I truly believe that we cannot come to a place of reconciliation until there is individual repentance and corporate repentance..

In what I do for a living, trust and confidence are key. Inevitably, you can't make brave choices and do your best work, if you don't have those, bec….

At the end of the day, everyone knows what it is to be loved and to aspire to love someone, to want to be loved, the loss of love, or having their lo….

Martin Luther King was a voice to the voiceless, and he did that tirelessly, and his faith was the engine to that. But he was just a human being, at ….

I truly believe slavery is why, as a by-product, we still have a disproportionate amount of black men incarcerated in America. It is an extension of ….

I feel television is in a fantastically rich vein of what it's presenting both by opportunity to actors and to audiences..

I have been in films before where people have been in a rush to label them as a Black film or even as a history lesson. These are ways to make the fi….

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 ….

You can’t have people curating culture in this way when we need to see things in order to reform from them..

Whether we like to admit it or not, as artists, we do project our own worldview on to what we do..