Paterson Joseph Quotes

Paterson Joseph

Profession : Actor

Birth : June 22, 1964

Comedy and sci-fi are two areas where you can be larger than life, without the charge of overacting.

Paterson Joseph

In no other genre can you be believable as an immortal character. I love sci-fi for that, so yeah - I'm a big fan.

Paterson Joseph

My favourite character was the Marquis de Carabas from Neil Gaiman's 'Neverwhere.' I love that character because he's so flamboyant but also darkly dangerous - and he's also 200 years old.

Paterson Joseph

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

Paterson Joseph

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

Paterson Joseph

I just didn't care what other people thought so much - because they were always going to think lowly of me and I actually quite liked surprising.

Paterson Joseph

Stress, pressure, pushback makes you stronger often. I wouldn't recommend it but if it's there and you can survive it, it can make you very determined.

Paterson Joseph

How lovely to have a character that people sort of remember and have tropes for, lines that I can't even remember saying. I think it's a very great privilege.

Paterson Joseph

There's much more venality in the world than there is racism in the world, I find. If it makes money, they'll be fine with it.

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 was a bit of a thorn in the flesh.

Paterson Joseph

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

Paterson Joseph

People who are racist, they love, they laugh, they are committed to their family and their friends. They're human beings. This is what's so difficult about it. They've got a mental block. They've been conditioned.

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

It's interesting to think that somebody could be a virulent racist... but actually that doesn't make somebody inhuman. It just means that they've got a world view that is perhaps not acceptable to those of us who find that anathema.

Paterson Joseph

Just because somebody is a racist, it doesn't mean they are not human. It just means that they perhaps have had a certain upbringing, or have had things reinforced, that have made them ignorant of 'the other.'

Paterson Joseph

Why are British actors revered in America? Because it's a place of excellence. This is where we are trained to be excellent. There's a richness here.

Paterson Joseph

I couldn't be happier to have found a home at Dialogue Books for my debut novel 'The Secret Diaries of Charles Ignatius Sancho.'

Paterson Joseph

Dialogue's brave, brilliant and eclectic list is one that I am very privileged to be joining and I look forward to an exciting collaboration with this pioneering company.

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 don't want there to be is talent drain, particularly among excellent black practitioners, because other, younger practitioners have no one to look to.

Paterson Joseph