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" For all its problems, I found South Africa a beautiful country, interesting and inspiring. "
David Harewood
Africa
Problems
Interesting
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" The area where I grew up in Birmingham was very diverse - I was aware of my race but not overly aware of it - and there seemed to be an understanding that we were all very much in the same boat. "
David Harewood
Race
Up
Understanding
" I was lucky to get into drama school and become a professional actor. No-one ever mentioned the colour of my skin. It's only when I came out of RADA - the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art - that I suddenly realised people started to refer to me as a black actor. "
David Harewood
Black
Art
Drama
" Without a doubt, the majority of historical period dramas tend to be told from a certain perspective. At least in America, black people have some visibility in period dramas, although it's usually in the form of slaves or servitude. "
David Harewood
People
America
Black
" I always tell younger actors that if they want to learn the ropes, there's no better place to do it than right here in the U.K. "
David Harewood
Learn
Better
Always
" My black hero is and always will be Martin Luther King, not just because of the strength of his oratory but because his vision was very much the reality that I'd come to take for granted. "
David Harewood
Black
Strength
Vision
" After 'Homeland,' I was offered a lot of very authoritarian, square, angry boss types, but I wanted to do something different. Casting directors are surprised when they look at my CV and see all the work I've done, from Shakespeare to playing Nelson Mandela. "
David Harewood
See
Look
Work
" When filming for 'Beowulf,' we were close to Hadrian's Wall; there was no phone signal, and the scenery was spectacular. "
David Harewood
Phone
Spectacular
Wall
" People come up and say very nice things about my work, like, 'You were great in 'Blood Diamond!' "
David Harewood
Say
Work
Nice
" In England, you feel like a member of the revolutionary guard the minute you even mention race. But I do think that the OscarsSoWhite phenomenon will have to reflect back on England. What people are essentially saying is that they want to see more diverse stories. It's not about putting three black people in the back of the shot. "
David Harewood
Race
Think
Saying
" I'd love to talk with Martin Luther King, just to hear his voice up close and be with someone who had such faith. He had such power. "
David Harewood
Voice
Faith
Someone
" On the red carpet, one tip is to suck in your cheekbones - apparently it looks better on camera. I don't know, though; I think a nice smile is best. "
David Harewood
Best
Smile
Red
" We live on a planet of limited resources - an abstract notion for some of the world's population, but for many of the poorest and most vulnerable, those limits are all too real. "
David Harewood
World
Real
Live
" There are countless fantastic actors out there who are being denied the opportunity to play Broadway because they're not a name, and I think that's kind of wrong. "
David Harewood
Kind
Think
Name
" Everyone in America thinks I'm American - and everyone in England seems to think I'm American. "
David Harewood
Think
America
American
" I love the stage, but it doesn't pay the mortgage. "
David Harewood
I Love
Pay
Love
" Before 'Homeland,' I had £80 in the bank and no idea what I was going to do. I seriously considered giving it all up and getting a job as a lorry driver. "
David Harewood
Bank
Going
Job
" We have a generation of black actors playing leading roles on film and TV - Idris Elba, Chiwetel Ejiofor - which is great and is breaking the mould. "
David Harewood
Generation
Playing
Great
" I'm very fortunate. I loved school and, when I went there, race, gangs and violence were not issues. There was a feeling, gone now, that you had to be presentable. If you hadn't combed your hair, older black ladies - complete strangers - would come up to you in the street and pull out a comb and straighten your tie. "
David Harewood
Hair
School
Violence
" Growing up, I really looked up to the classic Hollywood actors like Spencer Tracy, Robert Mitchum, and Peter Falk. I love character actors - I've never wanted to be the leading guy. "
David Harewood
Up
Growing Up
Character
" I do enjoy acting, but it is such a game. So for that reason, I don't think I'll ever leave London. "
David Harewood
Think
Ever
Enjoy
" It's been interesting seeing how vulnerable Obama is: not the secure president I thought he was or the strong leader that many people hoped he would be. He's a conciliator. But I've been listening to the Republican primary debates, and they're a bunch of lunatics. Just crazy. "
David Harewood
Listening
People
Strong
" Let's just say I like acting, but not necessarily all the stuff that comes with it. "
David Harewood
Just
Like
Say
" I'm a nut for these 'crime reality' shows. Things like 'Forensic Files,' 'Forensic Detectives.' "
David Harewood
Like
Reality
Things
" My parents came over from Barbados in the late 1950s and early '60s. "
David Harewood
Late
Over
Early
" Art is all about the experience. I could say I don't really relate to opera, but then you watch Placido Domingo, and you go, 'Blimey, look at that.' "
David Harewood
Art
Experience
Look
" At school, I was the classroom clown - I was always being thrown out for being naughty. Before I left, a teacher called me in and suggested I became an actor. "
David Harewood
Me
School
Teacher
" I watched the night unfold from beginning to end on my own here in my flat in Budapest where I've been working for the last six months, and when it was announced that Barack Obama was indeed president-elect, I wept. "
David Harewood
Beginning
Own
Night
" There was the 'Cosby Show' in America in the 1980s, which was a doctor in a beautiful Brownstone middle-class house. We just haven't created a role like that in the U.K.; it's always gangs and crime. We need to be brave. "
David Harewood
Need
Doctor
Brave
" I hope my kids can experience the seasons and a climate that's sustainable. The idea that things are going to be so very different for them is slightly scary. "
David Harewood
Going
Seasons
Scary
" To be on set with Tom Hiddlestone and Hugh Laurie is just fantastic. But during 'Homeland,' I was on set with Claire Danes and Damian Lewis, so I'm used to working with big hitters. "
David Harewood
Big
Used
Set