Black women's hair is a complicated and skillful thing that you need to know in order to tackle it and make it… — Paterson Joseph Black women Copy Share Image
We must have belief in BAME artists and have total trust in their work. — Paterson Joseph Art Copy Share Image
I love the Olivier. It's a great space for me because I'm a big actor. — Paterson Joseph Actor Copy Share Image
I'm not a big movie-watcher, but I do watch quite a bit of TV. — Paterson Joseph Big Copy Share Image
Racism is a strange mental illness where you look at somebody and say, 'I hate you because of the colour of your… — Paterson Joseph Hate Copy Share Image
I'm from London and I had never seen the sea until I was about 15, when I went on a trip to Littlehampton. — Paterson Joseph About Copy Share Image
Black storytelling can be about anything, absolutely anything, and within that it can be as enriching, as complex, beautiful, ugly as anything… — Paterson Joseph Beautiful 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… — Paterson Joseph Care 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… — Paterson Joseph Career 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… — Paterson Joseph African american 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 Being Copy Share Image
The British had this idea they were heroes in the anti-slavery movement but they also were beneficiaries of the slavery trade. It… — Paterson Joseph Anti slavery 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 Ambition Copy Share Image
Why are British actors revered in America? Because it's a place of excellence. This is where we are trained to be excellent.… — Paterson Joseph America Copy Share Image
I wanted to be in a costume drama. Yes, I like them. I enjoy the leap of imagination and the richer-than-modern-language they… — Paterson Joseph Costume Copy Share Image
I was reluctant to play Othello. It seemed like such a 'black actor' cliche, but when I finally did, in my 40s,… — Paterson Joseph Ability Copy Share Image
I'm definitely not an adrenalin junkie; I get enough of that at work. Holidays are always a matter of relaxing and spending… — Paterson Joseph Holiday Copy Share Image
In a life where you are oppressed and not listened to, and told to sit in the corner and shut up, which… — Paterson Joseph Appreciation Copy Share Image
What I thought about multi-ethnic Britain pre-Windrush and what I now know has, for me, changed for ever the meaning of the… — Paterson Joseph Black Copy Share Image
Why can I not get seen for parts in 'Emma,' 'Great Expectations,' or 'Downton Abbey?' Is it because I'm not 'the right… — Paterson Joseph Actor Copy Share Image
My academic struggles were no barrier to my ambitions to be the best that I could be. To be someone who could… — Paterson Joseph Ambition Copy Share Image
Just because somebody is a racist, it doesn't mean they are not human. It just means that they perhaps have had a… — Paterson Joseph Human Copy Share Image
We have fixed ideas of Tudor Britain, Victorian and Edwardian Britain as entirely white. But an awful lot of what we know… — Paterson Joseph History Copy Share Image
I think radio's a beautiful thing, because it's all about the imagination, and it's all about the capability of the performer being… — Paterson Joseph Beautiful Copy Share Image
It was the only thing I could do at school: I was rubbish at everything else but I could read aloud. It… — Paterson Joseph Life Copy Share Image
When I was 14 I was really taciturn - I hardly said a word - but then I auditioned for Shylock. With… — Paterson Joseph Felt Copy Share Image
History is a Pandora's box. We've opened it now, we can't pretend stuff doesn't exist. — Paterson Joseph Box Copy Share Image
I like to acknowledge the audience. It seems foolish to pretend they're not there. — Paterson Joseph Acknowledge Copy Share Image
I will have succeeded if young people go off wanting to do more research on black England. — Paterson Joseph Go Copy Share Image
It does good things to one, to feel that you are included in the story of your nation. — Paterson Joseph Feel Copy Share Image
My curiosity and my academic side only really came through outside of school life. — Paterson Joseph Academic Copy Share Image
Drama must give us a view not just of what was, but of what could be. — Paterson Joseph Could Copy Share Image
Comedy and sci-fi are two areas where you can be larger than life, without the charge of overacting. — Paterson Joseph Comedy Copy Share Image
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
British theatre is marginally better at casting the actor the director wants regardless of colour, but TV has always, falsely I believe,… — Paterson Joseph Believe 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
How lovely to have a character that people sort of remember and have tropes for, lines that I can't even remember saying.… — Paterson Joseph Character Copy Share Image
It's only later that you realise 'All of those heroes of mine were white.' Not because I didn't know any better, but… — Paterson Joseph Better Copy Share Image
