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" There has been a big debate about it: can a black man play a Nordic character? "

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" The role of my agent has just been to get me in the room. If I can get in the room - say the character is just a charming man who lives next door - then I'll walk in there and be as charming as I can and they will think to themselves, 'I don't see why we can't cast him.' "

" I don't get recognised that much yet in London, but when I do I get a real sense of achievement. "

" Every leading lady I work with, I'll see if I can get a song out of them and put it on an album. "

" I've always been DJing; it's just I'm making more of a push for it, making it more public. "

" The only thing I change mainly is my sneakers. I love sneakers. But everything's sort of black or jeans. Jeans, always. "

" I did a rendition of 'Billie Jean' which is on my Soundcloud. I put it on Twitter, and it got about 3000 hits that day. "

" I'm an ambitious person. I never consider myself in competition with anyone, and I'm not saying that from an arrogant standpoint, it's just that my journey started so, so long ago, and I'm still on it and I won't stand still. "

" As an actor, you're trained to do the right thing, be politically correct, say your lines, say the right thing about the people you're working with. "

" I still sing on bits and pieces. Singing's something that I love to do, but it's not something that I pursue as a career. "

" I was always a real athletic kid. Then when I got older, I just figured it was part of life to keep training. "

" I'm tactile, very tactile. A woman who has really nice, looked-after skin is such a turn-on for me. It's always sexy. "

" Africans, we hold on to our youths and whip them into shape. "

" I tend to stay away from the comics. "

" I've never had to explain 'Prometheus' to people, ever. Most people get it. "

" I love bikes. I used to own one, but I fell off it when I was younger and that was the end of my bike riding days until now. "

" I'm not interested in making all-black films - I come from a very diverse culture; I want to work with every type of person. I work a lot with women executives because they seem to be a lot more open minded about that and a lot more progressive in that way. "

" Because I was big, I didn't have to listen to anyone doubting me. I was just considered good at football or whatever, there were no questions about it. "

" I was into Spider Man when I was a kid and that was the only comic I've ever read. "

" I was really ambitious, so I was innovative. I was one of the first DJs to do live calls, 'cause I found this phone device that would pick up other people's voices. "

" What really excites me in a project is when it goes in a way you haven't been before. "

" I did green screen for the first time! I wouldn't like to do a whole movie of green screen, though. You kind of forget the plot a little - like being in a Broadway play and doing it over and over and forgetting your line halfway through. "

" Now there are certain things you have to prepare - like dialect and special skills. But in the moment, interaction between two characters on the page doesn't need - for me, I don't need to prepare that. "

" I don't have a place that I call home at the moment because there's no point. I mean, I'm a traveling circus for a while. It's weird. Like, if I wanted to go home, there's nowhere to go. I just go to a hotel. But I've kind of gotten used to it. "

" Yeah, I know, any time you hear an actor say, 'I do music', you cringe. But I want to be gradual with my music. I want to earn my stripes. "

" Apparently, Daniel Craig said I'd be a great Bond. Daniel, why did you say that? Dropped me right in it! What an honor it would be, but also, what an indication of change. "

" The English are good at bad guys - the James Bond-style villain, cunning, slow-burning. The Americans are much more obvious about it. "

" Twenty or 30 years from now, I'm going to be on a beach in Jamaica. "

" If you go to Africa and you're white, you're probably not going to get that much work either. But the fact is that there is a longer history of black integration in the U.S. I don't have any resentment about this: I did the maths, calculated it against my ambition and decided to leave England. "

" I'd rather a young black actor read about success as opposed to how tough it was. I get these roles because I can act and that's it. Hopefully that's it. "

" Whether it's music or acting, that creativity all comes from the same source. "