To be human is to seek perfection, and find joy in never attaining it.

I'm interested in generating work for myself. I have trouble with this waiting-for-the-phone-to-ring lifestyle, especially after drama school, which was so creatively fulfilling.

My immediate family was always very supportive. It was my own fear of the rest of the world not accepting me, the rest of our society not accepting my wish to be an actor.

Even in my dreams of being an actor, my dream was not in the celebrity. My dream was in the work that I wanted to do.

It's only when you risk failure that you discover things. When you play it safe, you're not expressing the utmost of your human experience.

What is fundamentally beautiful is compassion: for yourself and for those around you.

Growing up in Kenya, slum life was not far away. I had family that lived in slums, so I visited them often, and so I've seen and interacted with abject poverty. But I also know that because of that, poverty is not the definition of the people that live there.