My voice was pretty good almost all through Othello. Alexander Technique really helped my posture and focus.

That's where depression hits you most - your home life. It doesn't affect your work. I can't do this zany, wacky, funny thing any more. I haven't been like that for a long time.

The filming of Shakespeare is always problematic, because he hates posing for the camera

It was really bizarre. I was learning how to be a black guy from a white guy pretending to be a black man.

Ecstasy is a drug so powerful, it makes white people think they can dance.

My voice was pretty good almost all through Othello. Alexander Technique really helped my posture and focus.

They don't make red noses to fit black people. I have a wide nose like a Volkswagen and I have never had a red nose that fitted me.