Apartheid is a lie, people can work together, people can create together.

I remember the words of my grandmother who died at 102. I remember my great mother, Grand Brika, who died at the age of 106. They talked to us all the time. And my grandmother even lied to me. She said there was royalty. She said that my great-great-great grandfather was the king of the outer Thembu.

When you write as an artist, you just tell a story and people say it addresses issues.

Acting became a powerful tool for change. You had to tell stories that were important to you.

I was 51 when I voted for the first time in 1994, and I look at South Africa through those spectacles.

Forgiving is OK. Forgetting, never.

'iNkaba' has made me famous in the living rooms of the people of my country. It was almost like being famous all over again. People stop me in the street and shopping malls to take pictures.

When I first encountered Shakespeare as a boy, I read every word this man has written. To me, he is like an African storyteller.

I am known for always playing virtuous characters.

I couldn't really say that a repressive society would result in creative art. But somehow it does help, it is an ingredient, it acts as a Catalyst to a man who is committed.

I want my work to contribute toward creating a better society, toward bringing people together. That is always the first consideration, not the money.

What does Macbeth want? What does Shakespeare want? What does Othello want? What does James want? What does Arthur Miller want when he wrote? Those things you incorporate and create in the character, and then you step back and you create it. It always must begin with the point of truth within yourself.

The government harasses everything. The government must keep a constant surveillance of all activities by black people in order to maintain their reign over them, especially when they are in a minority.

In South Africa in 1987, apartheid was still going strong. Some of the most brutal race laws had been relaxed, but they hadn't yet been repealed. There was still a lot of tension.

We've got the right to vote, but what does it mean? People now want to have the right to a job, the right to education, the right to medical services.

In South Africa, we've been watching these movies all our lives - 'Batman,' 'Superman,' 'Captain America' - and every time the mask comes off it's a white man.

In South Africa, it is different. When you are born not even your father knows what is going to happen in your life.

Seventy is beautiful for me. I am truly, at last, an elder.

In any character you are given to play, be it evil/good/whatever character, you begin with self. You examine yourself and ruthlessly see similarities between you and the devil, or between you and the dictator, or between you and the kind man.

'Captain Marvel,' whereby the steel trap is challenged, where the hero is a heroine, where the most powerful person who has the welfare of the future of the human race is a woman. What else can it be? Because that was the role of my mother when I was a kid.

When western culture developed, we became detached from nature, detached from our relationship with the animals. We saw animals perhaps as only the rhino horn, the elephant's tusk, we saw it as making money.

When I'm abroad it's almost like I'm in a transit lounge. I'm only comfortable when I know the date of departure.

It is a troubled soul that forces the human being to act. It is some kind of gangrene within you, inside of you, that eats your soul, that forces you to save your soul.

Protest theater has a place again. It's not against whites or apartheid. It is against injustice and anything that fails our people.