When I was 14 I was really taciturn - I hardly said a word - but then I auditioned for Shylock. With… — Paterson Joseph Copy Share Image
Shakespeare taught me everything I know about love. Its vibrancy. How afterwards your life seems darker. And everything I know about power,… — Paterson Joseph Copy Share Image
Poor Marlowe gets a rough deal for simply not being Shakespeare. But he was Bill's forerunner. It's hard to imagine one without… — Paterson Joseph Copy Share Image
I did Shakespeare with teenagers in Harlesden, and it transformed them. I did it with prisoners in Brixton and it inspired them… — Paterson Joseph Copy Share Image
We must have belief in BAME artists and have total trust in their work. — Paterson Joseph Copy Share Image
It takes a long time to shoot 'Peep Show' whenever I do a scene - that's probably why I don't do much stuff on… — Paterson Joseph Copy Share Image
It's essential for people to socialise with each other, to play games, to open up, to role-play. It brings empathy and that is vital… — Paterson Joseph Copy Share Image
My career started off very well in classical theatre, a genre that I shouldn't perhaps have done so well in. As a result it… — Paterson Joseph Copy Share Image
I'm not a gambler. And I don't approve of gambling unless it's for the Grand National. — Paterson Joseph 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
When I got to secondary school I copped out and started bunking off. — Paterson Joseph 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 what's so… — Paterson Joseph Copy Share Image
That's the mentality of the soldier. You act on order, not on your own cognition. — 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 Copy Share Image
When I was 14 I was really taciturn - I hardly said a word - but then I auditioned for Shylock. With Shakespeare's words… — Paterson Joseph Copy Share Image
Great African-American stars who can command major theatre and film roles in successful international projects are not uncommon: James Earl Jones, Denzel Washington, Halle… — 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 only deeply… — Paterson Joseph Copy Share Image
