Excellence is the best weapon against prejudice.

I truly believe that one of the things that has been lacking in America is a spirit of repentance about the injustices of slavery and the injustices of segregation and racism generally. I truly believe that we cannot come to a place of reconciliation until there is individual repentance and corporate repentance.

Find the audience, be excellent, and you will be fine.

Considering that I'm British and I talk the way I do, I love it when a director takes a chance on me.

I know for a fact the reason I'm an actor is because one, two, maybe three people when I was younger saw something that I did, in youth theater or some small play somewhere, and said, "You're good."

One of the things the BBC does better than anyone is period drama.

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.