99 Quotes by Ncuti Gatwa

Hair in the black community is such a big thing culturally. The barbershop is a place for black men to socialise, catch up and bond. It's the same for black women in the salon. Going there is my favourite thing to do in the week. You catch up with people, someone comes around with food, someone else is selling something.

I love theater, and I love that you have to be so intensely in the character and you have to hit that place every single night. It's just really good training. It was just a very good way of falling in love with my craft.

Adebayo Oke-Lawal is so talented. He takes risks to make his suits different.

I was born in Nyarugenge, a district in Kigali, Rwanda.

In a small way, I'm driven by proving people wrong: because of the background I come from, I think a lot of people have doubted that I would get this far.

I think there's quite a narrow representation of gay people on TV and I think that we need to push that. And I think that we need to allow for a lot more stories to be told.

People really cannot understand the concept of a black boy in a tracksuit in London being from Scotland.

At home, I was very traditional, studied, made sure I brought home those A's and B's, made sure I went to Bible study. Outside of that, oh, I was such a little chav!

Being a 25 year old man with no money or job affected my sense of self-worth. Rejection became unbearable. Auditions weren't just acting jobs, they were lifelines.