Paterson Joseph Quotes

Paterson Joseph

Profession : Actor

Birth : June 22, 1964

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

Paterson Joseph

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 able to convince you of what and who they are.

Paterson Joseph

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

Paterson Joseph

I always thought of Doctor Who as being an older guy - Jon Pertwee was mine - older than me now and somehow slightly dangerous. You need him to get through these situations because of everything he's seen and experienced, but you can never quite trust him or ever really know what he's thinking.

Paterson Joseph

I spent most of my time in libraries or Brent Cross shopping centre. I didn't understand what school was about. I was just lost.

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I wasn't very good at school.

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There's a great book called 'Britain's Black Past' edited by Gretchen Gerzina. It has a myriad of stories and angles on black British history by different authors. It talks about women, soldiers and slavery.

Paterson Joseph

I'm not a big movie-watcher, but I do watch quite a bit of TV.

Paterson Joseph

My son introduced me to 'New Girl,' which I didn't think I would like, but I'm completely charmed by it.

Paterson Joseph

I enjoyed 'Hunters' on Amazon Prime, which is the Al Pacino series about Nazi hunters in 1980s U.S. The subject matter is so difficult, but they manage to make it entertaining without making it twee or too light-hearted. Plus you get a big chunk of history, and that is my favourite thing.

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

Paterson Joseph

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

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Black storytelling can be about anything, absolutely anything, and within that it can be as enriching, as complex, beautiful, ugly as anything else. We are not seeing enough of those complexities on our stages.

Paterson Joseph

We must have belief in BAME artists and have total trust in their work.

Paterson Joseph

The fact that, I've heard anecdotally, careers officers regularly tell students who think about a career in the arts, particularly in acting, not to do it because they'd be in so much debt they'd probably never pay it back is frightening to me.

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If you think something is expensive for you or it's not part of your community, you don't go for it.

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It's essential for people to socialise with each other, to play games, to open up, to role-play. It brings empathy and that is vital for us to care about each other.

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Poor Marlowe gets a rough deal for simply not being Shakespeare. But he was Bill's forerunner. It's hard to imagine one without the other.

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My academic struggles were no barrier to my ambitions to be the best that I could be. To be someone who could contribute positively to society at large and to encourage those nearest me to do the same.

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I'm not a gambler. And I don't approve of gambling unless it's for the Grand National.

Paterson Joseph