As an actor, whether I'm playing Othello on stage ... -David Harewood

As an actor, whether I'm playing Othello on stage or David Estes on 'Homeland,' that ability to give into your imagination is something that I enjoy.

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David Harewood is a skilled actor known for his performances in film, television, or theater. He may have portrayed diverse characters, showcasing his acting range and talent.

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We've yet to deal with the uncomfortable history of England being involved in the transatlantic slave trade, whereas America has at least made some mo...

I was in a number of school plays, one in particular, when I was 13 or 14, entitled 'Illusions.' It was put together by one of the teachers, and was a...

Giving kids the chance to see live theatre should not just be free, it should be compulsory....

I remember when I first came to Los Angeles being staggered by the range of roles open to me. These were leading parts in shiny new projects, and what...

As an ambassador for the aid agency Cafod and the Anthony Nolan Trust, I need to be sure that my public support for those charities is a help for thei...

Back in 2005, the Anthony Nolan Trust could have asked me just to speak out about the lack of ethnic minority donors on the bone marrow register, but ...

I remember coming back to the U.K. after spending five months in Charlotte for 'Homeland,' and I just found myself just wandering around London. There...

At school, I was the classroom clown - I was always being thrown out for being naughty. Before I left, a teacher called me in and suggested I became a...

I didn't go abroad until quite late. A friend drove us to Amalfi, Italy, for his sister's wedding when I was a teenager. It was exciting driving throu...

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I just can't afford to get bored, because if you've been blessed with a generous imagination, which a lot of actors have, to be engaged, to be stimula...

'A Princess of Mars' may not have exerted the same colossal pull that Tarzan had on the global imagination, but its influence on generations of reader...

I do as much comedy as I possibly can, but I'm basically limited by the imagination of the secretaries who make the decisions....

I had this wild imagination. I was never me. All my childhood photos, I'm in fancy dress, playing a Russian refuge or Marvelous Mad Madam Mim....

It would be too frightening for me to consider myself a role model. But I like the idea of not being afraid of letting your imagination rule you, to f...

I'm a light sleeper. I've never been one of those people who can put their head down and suddenly everything disappears. Nighttime is the time I get m...

I guess something that I've noticed from American acts who had success in touring is more of an explanation as to their music. Which is I think quite ...

I didn't have the equipment for the regular world of being a lawyer. I didn't have the imagination for that. I did have a funny kind of ambition, but ...

There's just so many great stories in the past that you can know a little bit about, but you can't know it all, and that's where imagination can work....

With the world as it now presents itself, there is something perverse, and probably dysfunctional, about a person who stays in the same house for 40 y...