Paterson Joseph

For casting purposes, it seems I was born in the wrong skin.

— Paterson Joseph

I don't feel guilty about much.

— Paterson Joseph

The first time I went to see theatre, I was in it.

— Paterson Joseph

I think the god of acting is kind to me.

— Paterson Joseph

It sometimes feels that I was born in the wrong time.

— Paterson Joseph

I don't know any black actors who are as short as I am.

— Paterson Joseph

I deplore people who can't keep their word.

— Paterson Joseph

That's the mentality of the soldier. You act on order, not on your own cognition.

— Paterson Joseph

My curiosity and my academic side only really came through outside of school life.

— Paterson Joseph

I hope my play, 'Sancho,' will contribute a little to an understanding of our shared British history, whoever we are.

— Paterson Joseph

As an actor, I want to be in works that reflect black presence in the U.K. throughout the nation's history.

— Paterson Joseph

We have to have more voices, more varied voices from people from all sorts of backgrounds.

— Paterson Joseph

To be remembered by name for a character, with a sort of guilty joy, is... aw man, it's marvellous.

— Paterson Joseph

I mean, ethnic is a meaningless term because everybody thinks it means brown or something, but actually, we're all ethnic.

— Paterson Joseph

You've just got to expand the breadth of imagination. The diversity of ideas is the most important thing.

— Paterson Joseph

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

I stayed in some lovely hotels in Thailand, especially the Mandarin Oriental in Bangkok. It was very peaceful and really well done.…

— Paterson Joseph

That the whole world is not the West and that there are other ways of doing things, whether it's eating, seeing or…

— Paterson Joseph

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

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

When I took on the role of Kamal Hadley it was a question of - how do I depict a racist who…

— Paterson Joseph

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

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

There was nothing around me that would have given me heroes who happened to be Black. And I don't think anybody can…

— Paterson Joseph

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

You see somebody like Olivia Colman and say, 'Okay, she's really great at comedy - I wonder if she can do drama?'…

— Paterson Joseph

I don't have anything against someone going to the biggest market in the world for the job that we do. What I…

— Paterson Joseph

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

Each case - each story - is interesting in itself. I think that's what 'Law & Order: U.K.' maintains and that's why…

— Paterson Joseph

I always thought of Doctor Who as being an older guy - Jon Pertwee was mine - older than me now and…

— Paterson Joseph

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

When I got to secondary school I copped out and started bunking off.

— Paterson Joseph

I like to acknowledge the audience. It seems foolish to pretend they're not there.

— Paterson Joseph

It does good things to one, to feel that you are included in the story of your nation.

— Paterson Joseph

One of the excuses used for not casting culturally different actors is authenticity. But theater is not documentary.

— Paterson Joseph

I will have succeeded if young people go off wanting to do more research on black England.

— Paterson Joseph

You can transform somebody just by telling them, 'I'm listening.'

— Paterson Joseph

I'm so keen to convey what I'm thinking and feeling, as opposed to letting the audience come to me.

— Paterson Joseph

The wealth of our country was based on free labour, and that free labour was African labour - our ancestors.

— Paterson Joseph

Babylon' has definitely added a degree of sympathy to my opinion of those at the top of the major police forces in…

— Paterson Joseph