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

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 love be opposed, whether it is family, friends or politically.

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

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.

I'm very aware that people find my wife and I's marriage disagreeable. But all I have to do is look at my four kids, and the love I have in my heart for my wife after 18 years of marriage, and the ugliness does fade.

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

I hear God as an audible voice.