Actors tend to not know how their performances are going to actually be used. Even though the script says one thing, in the edit, it can be something else.

I love bikes. I used to own one, but I fell off it when I was younger and that was the end of my bike riding days until now.

White actors still get way more money in Hollywood. It's been that way for a very long time. I hope it'll change, but it's a matter of forcing that change.

We're all human beings. Experience is experience, let's just be honest. Let's not try and dissect suffering into a race, or whatever you want to call it. We're all human beings, one way or another. All races have gone through times that are challenging; that's part of being a human.

I'm never shaken or stirred.

It was deeply important for me to understand where Mandela came from. Because we know where he was going, and that's a famous story, but who was he? Where did he come from? What was his upbringing?

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