Every single film I've done, it's about the character.

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.

People watch three or four episodes at a time of their shows.

I was always a real athletic kid. Then when I got older, I just figured it was part of life to keep training.

I was in The Wire for three years, and I left at the highlight of that.

If you go to Africa and you're white, you're probably not going to get that much work either. But the fact is that there is a longer history of black integration in the U.S. I don't have any resentment about this: I did the maths, calculated it against my ambition and decided to leave England.

My definition of bad-ass is that I'm a force of nature and true spirit. I'm self-admitting that, and it sounds vain to say that, but I am.