I think I may have failed at a lot of things, but the one thing I can say, and that I'm proud of, is that I am a good parent.

Just because I never went to university doesn't mean you can't read, although I do feel a bit uneducated from time to time.

I'm not an academic, but I've always loved poetry since I've been small.

It is not easy to get parts in mainstream films for most people of color. Hollywood and British writers are not writing parts for us, or the directors are not interested in casting us in parts that are color-blind.

The older I get, the more I'm prepared to do things for the money.

TV is an extraordinary medium. You can do things with TV that you just can't do on film. There's so much more time, there's the opportunity for development, and you can let things lay dormant for a period. You can't really do that in two hours or three hours in a movie, that often, I would say.

If you don't take the chance to live life, what can you say at the end of it?

Only when I came to America did I think of myself as British.

I think that reality TV is so bad. It is a tool by the media to not make people think.

We emphasize our differences by nationality, race and financially. [...] It's our common humanity that defines us.

In general, I try to avoid anything that I'm in. I've been that way for awhile. I don't know why. You have to watch, professionally, the things that you're required to watch, but it's not something that I would sit down and watch, again and again.