I like to disappear into a role. I equate the success of it with a feeling of being chemically changed. That's the only way I can express it.

Chiwetel Ejiofor

I have many different sides; I can be the life and soul of the party - or a wallflower. Naomie Harris

I don't need to be validated by anybody else; I don't need to be accepted or approved of for my happiness.

Letitia Wright

Film is just a great medium to express yourself and a great environment to work around.

John Boyega

I don't put the pressure on myself to be a very successful movie star.

I want to enjoy being an actor and I want to be challenged by the roles I take.

Thandie Newton

It's a strange thing, but you get this click in your brain; the wonderful feeling that the entirety of a character is suddenly available and accessible to you.

Chiwetel Ejiofor

He's the reason, really, that I have the career that I've had because he took a risk on me and gave me Selena in 28 Days Later (2002).

He really started my career for me, I'm very grateful to Danny Boyle.

Naomie Harris

It was cool to play an African princess who's the smartest in the whole world. That never happens. So I hope all the young girls can feel smart, too.

Letitia Wright

My biggest challenge is to not do urban movies for the rest of my life, those alpha hoodies. John Boyega

I grew up on the coast of England in the '70s.

My dad is white from Cornwall, and my mom is black from Zimbabwe. Even the idea of us as a family was challenging to most people.

Thandie Newton

I wanted to be an actor ever since I got on stage for the first time, aged 13.

Before that, I thought I might follow in the medical footsteps of my parents: my father was a doctor, my mother a pharmacist.

Chiwetel Ejiofor

I've always said that I want to base my career choices on portraying positive images of black women, and I thought I never, ever want to play a stereotypical role, because there are enough of them out there.

And I've always said I will never play a crack addict.

Naomie Harris

'In my mind, I don't really see myself as being famous. I just think my work is being exposed to a bigger audience.' Letitia Wright

I learned to use language like my mother did. I would simulcast, and give you the program in your own tongue. Trevor Noah

'I was bullied because I have this thick Nigerian accent.' Yvonne Orji #BlackExcellence #DiverseTheatre

'The eye never forgets what the heart has seen.' African quote #DiverseTheatre #SpokenWord

'What an honor it was to step into the shoes of Nelson Mandela and portray a man who defied odds, broke down barriers, and championed human rights before the eyes of the world' Idris Elba

“[Do] not wait for permission... if you want to make a film, say, and your reasons are truly for the experience of doing it and for the storytelling and the art of it, you don’t have to ask anyone.”

A Wrinkle in Time director Ava Duvernay

'When the music changes, so does the dance.' African quote

'Just think of the work you've set yourself to do, and do it as well as you can.' Chinua Achebe #DiverseTheatre #quotesdaily