“There is always the fear of unknown – racism comes from people when they don’t know something, they are strangers to the other side.”

I regret starting drinking alcohol, smoking cigarettes and joining Facebook.

The episode of The Fresh Prince in Bel-Air when Will Smith’s father disses him. That’s sadder than when Mufasa died.

A year later, I had it on all my fingers. My hands looked like the hands of an alligator. So I fist bumped people instead of shaking hands for a few years.

When I was young, I had a big problem with warts. It started with one on the side of my little finger.

What is the problem with the advertising industry is they’re still, for me, what I call in Africa is the colonial mind of white men, because the black person or the other colour is out of the line. They’re not good for this sort of purpose.

The record in the Federal Court discloses that (the NCI) took sides and sought in every way to hinder, suppress and restrict…(a) treatment of cancer.

Management is like making love. There’s heat from both sides. You have an instinct to get there.

When you are on the management side, you still have to understand the artistic sensibility so that there is a dialogue with the creative side.

If there is willingness on the Palestinian side to reach an agreement, it is possible. We are conducting the negotiations with goodwill.

Acting isn’t a side thing – you have to live and breathe it.

We like things to be black or white, tall or short, here or there.

No action is without its side effects.

I myself am Muslim and I stand on the side of an open society.