Only when I came to America did I think of myself as British.

I'm not an academic, but I've always loved poetry since I've been small.

Only when I came to America did I think of myself as British.

I never felt at home in London, because people were constantly telling me I didn't belong here, so after a while, you tend to believe that.

The older I get, the more I'm prepared to do things for the money.

It is not easy to get parts in mainstream films for most people of color. Hollywood and British writers are not writing parts for us, or the directors are not interested in casting us in parts that are color-blind.

TV is an extraordinary medium. You can do things with TV that you just can't do on film. There's so much more time, there's the opportunity for development, and you can let things lay dormant for a period. You can't really do that in two hours or three hours in a movie, that often, I would say.