“It was about survival. It was about where the next meal was coming from.”

I’ve never been really great at trusting anybody, just because of the way I grew up.

It’s a good way of getting you into the zone for the scene.

Because I play the trumpet and sing. I’d like to incorporate that into a character.

You want to create something fresh, original, very unique.

I’d like to do a lead action role.

It seemed like a different story, with the horror elements.

In terms of what I’m looking for, I’d like to do a lead action role.

It has a very mystic energy which informs you as an actor.

It’s a significant question: should black people only adopt black children, and white people white children?

And then, with a European director and Norwegian actors speaking in Norwegian, it was going to be very interesting.

It’s one of the most beautiful places on this planet.

The only way I know how to deliver is to focus; some people can turn it on or off – I’d rather stay in character.

Those films that really speak to the primal fear that we, as human beings, have about the unknown have always intrigued me.

. It has to look real. That in itself becomes challenging because you have to learn it straight away.

So, whatever initial trepidation or fear I may have had was alleviated by those factors.

A lot of the moves are split legs, and twisting fast.

Conscience is a God to all mortals.

Am I really a man? Have I got what it takeswhen it counts?

My father was a lorry driver, very rarely at home.

Flying without feathers is not easy: my wings have no feathers.

You have not emerged from any “other” and there is no place else for “you” to disappear into. Ever.

Discipline, strictly speaking, is activity carried on to prepare us indirectly for some activity other than itself. We do not practice the piano to practice the piano well, but to play it well.

There is indeed a God that hears and sees whate’er we do.

For I know that many good things have happened to many, when least expected; and that many hopes have been disappointed.