"Any government would be really embarrassed to ban Shakespeare."

"The apartheid government was frightened of ridicule. Everyone is frightened of laughter."

"Theatre is a white invention, a European invention, and white people go to it. It's in their DNA. It starts with Shak…"

"Life and art get mixed up sometimes – it's what actors draw on."

"My sensitivity to prejudice is high because I was brought up in South Africa. My awareness of all this crap came earl…"

"The only times I saw black people were once in Adelaide and once at the other end of the continent, in both cases loo…"

"In South Africa we were criminal, beastly, vile and disgusting, but we didn't commit genocide."

"You can't envy something you can't be, can you? You sat and admired what was emerging."

"The whole purpose of an actor's life is to find great writing, and when it comes along you leap on it like a puppy on…"

"I stepped back from acting because I was bringing up a child. You can't do both."