Babylon' has definitely added a degree of sympathy to my opinion of those at the top of the major police forces in… — Paterson Joseph Babylon Copy Share Image
I'm so keen to convey what I'm thinking and feeling, as opposed to letting the audience come to me. — Paterson Joseph Audience Copy Share Image
The wealth of our country was based on free labour, and that free labour was African labour - our ancestors. — Paterson Joseph Ancestors Copy Share Image
My son introduced me to 'New Girl,' which I didn't think I would like, but I'm completely charmed by it. — Paterson Joseph Girl Copy Share Image
If you think something is expensive for you or it's not part of your community, you don't go for it. — Paterson Joseph Community Copy Share Image
History is a Pandora's box. We've opened it now, we can't pretend stuff doesn't exist. — Paterson Joseph Copy Share Image
When I do TV, I always look at it afterwards and realise that I'm more of a theatre actor. — Paterson Joseph Actor Copy Share Image
I like to acknowledge the audience. It seems foolish to pretend they're not there. — Paterson Joseph Copy Share Image
Most scripts you need to stretch your imagination just to see what it would look like on screen; 'Neverwhere' was not like… — Paterson Joseph Imagination Copy Share Image
British theatre is marginally better at casting the actor the director wants regardless of colour, but TV has always, falsely I believe,… — Paterson Joseph Copy Share Image
The black presence in our British history has sometimes wilfully, sometimes neglectfully, been whitewashed out of our national tale. This is not… — Paterson Joseph British Copy Share Image
People who are racist, they love, they laugh, they are committed to their family and their friends. They're human beings. This is… — Paterson Joseph Copy Share Image
Whenever I do comedy, my trouble is that I laugh too much - I enjoy myself too much, so it's quite expensive… — Paterson Joseph Actor Copy Share Image
As I know from my own experience, I may have the skill and the training to wield, say, a Bronte hero's finely… — Paterson Joseph Auditions Copy Share Image
My favourite character was the Marquis de Carabas from Neil Gaiman's 'Neverwhere.' I love that character because he's so flamboyant but also… — Paterson Joseph Character Copy Share Image
There's a desire now to have multi-ethnic casts in many, many things, even in costume drama, which I'm very, very pleased about. — Paterson Joseph Desire Copy Share Image
This is the story that I've grown up with in this country, Black protest is always seen as violent. In fact, Black… — Paterson Joseph Country Copy Share Image
The marvellous thing about Proust - although it must have been a nightmare living in his head - is he forgot nothing.… — Paterson Joseph Copy Share Image
I enjoyed 'Hunters' on Amazon Prime, which is the Al Pacino series about Nazi hunters in 1980s U.S. The subject matter is… — Paterson Joseph Copy Share Image
I live in France, I don't live in the States and I don't live in London, so I'm not immersed in the… — Paterson Joseph Career Copy Share Image
About two months after I'd finished filming 'The Beach' in Thailand, I found myself on a roof in Croydon at 2:00 A.M.… — Paterson Joseph Angel Copy Share Image
Each case - each story - is interesting in itself. I think that's what 'Law & Order: U.K.' maintains and that's why… — Paterson Joseph Crime Copy Share Image
I always thought of Doctor Who as being an older guy - Jon Pertwee was mine - older than me now and… — Paterson Joseph Copy Share Image
You see somebody like Olivia Colman and say, 'Okay, she's really great at comedy - I wonder if she can do drama?'… — Paterson Joseph Actor Copy Share Image
When I got to secondary school I copped out and started bunking off. — Paterson Joseph Copy Share Image
One of the excuses used for not casting culturally different actors is authenticity. But theater is not documentary. — Paterson Joseph Actor Copy Share Image
I will have succeeded if young people go off wanting to do more research on black England. — Paterson Joseph Copy Share Image
It does good things to one, to feel that you are included in the story of your nation. — Paterson Joseph Copy Share Image
You can transform somebody just by telling them, 'I'm listening.' — Paterson Joseph Change Copy Share Image
I mean, ethnic is a meaningless term because everybody thinks it means brown or something, but actually, we're all ethnic. — Paterson Joseph Copy Share Image
You've just got to expand the breadth of imagination. The diversity of ideas is the most important thing. — Paterson Joseph Diversity Copy Share Image
My curiosity and my academic side only really came through outside of school life. — Paterson Joseph Academic Copy Share Image
I hope my play, 'Sancho,' will contribute a little to an understanding of our shared British history, whoever we are. — Paterson Joseph British Copy Share Image
