I want to go to Sierra Leone with something - whether it's some sort of contribution to healthcare, or to the entertainment industry. My cousin is a nurse; we are talking about opening a clinic.

I love working. I'm a workaholic and I'm really privileged for some of the jobs I get offered and so I just want to keep going.

In some countries, no one knows who Idris Elba is.

Every leading lady I work with, I'll see if I can get a song out of them and put it on an album.

I'm rebelling against being handed a career, like, 'You're the next this; you're the next that.' I'm not the next anything, I'm the first me. I can't be myself, I can't just be Idris Elba. But that's just the nature of the business.

Waking up in TRUTH is so much better than living in a lie.

What really excites me in a project is when it goes in a way you haven't been before.