Clare-Hope Ashitey Quotes

Toni Morrison is challenged regularly because she is a black author who writes about the real world. She speaks with so much knowledge about black issues she can't be accused of creating these (issues). People find these issues threatening.

My favorite TV show of all time is 'The Wire,' which has the feeling of a project-based show. You draw in people from disparate parts of the world, and they have to work together to achieve a goal.

I love 'The Wire;' that's my favorite show, so I'll watch that.

Actors look at life in a different way. When I meet people, I know that one day I may portray that person or someone like them. It may be a cop or a homeless guy. It helps you to pay more attention to people. Everyone I meet, I retain something from them, something from their personality. It helps me to portray realism in my work.

I think being on a TV show is amazing but also, people get kind of used to seeing you a certain way and so it becomes a challenge to break free from that in a way.

'Shameless' is going to shake up television. Any drama is good drama. Bring it.

I love Daredevil. I thought it was enjoyable. Okay? There were critical issues with it, and that's why I wear black, some people wear red - we are entitled to our opinions.

Nothing will ever top 'The Wire.' It was historical. It was black cinema.

When I do a picture and it's 90% black, like 'Bird,' I use 90% black people.

I'm a mixed race lad from Liverpool. I get to play a lot of hard characters, and some people perceive that's what I'm like, but it's great for me 'cos they're always the most interesting characters.

I'm doing this play right now, the new David Mamet play. It's called 'Race,' and it's very interesting how people really leave the theater filled with the desire to talk about the play and the issues and the characters, and how they're all navigating their personal views around race.

Young people deserve to be portrayed with depth.

I'm part of the crew obsessed with 'The Wire.' Like, I'm not over that yet.

I played a doctor on 'Counterpart', so that was about studying and watching documentaries and reading and trying to learn.

Different things made 'Cheers' and 'Frasier' special. Both of them, though, were honest. It was the old Shakespeare thing: Hold the mirror up to life.

I've always thought that 'Dear White People' should live on as a TV show, so I'll leave it at that.

I liked 'The Wire.'

'Teachers' is in no way a realistic soap; we're not trying to do that, which is why we never do 'issues.'

'The Wire' is my all-time favourite show. It takes its time, and it doesn't spoon-feed the viewer.

It's people who look like me, just seeing representation of everyone. I didn't get that when I was young. I only saw one black girl that was on a Disney show, that was known for being the sassy, coocoo, that type of girl.

One of my biggest influences, of course, is David Simon and his work on 'The Wire.'

'The Wire' is, by far, my favorite television show of all time. And I've always said that my aspirations for 'Luke Cage' was that it would be 'The Wire' of the Marvel television universe.

In movies and television shows, there has never been a really good Chinese lead. So often the Chinese look like they are very scared and shy.

There's this responsibility you feel to present a certain thing that kind of respectability politics. I think that became the only accepted way of defining black culture. I started to become too aware of 'How does this look?' instead of 'Who are these characters?'

I've been inspired for a long time by Nicole Holofcener. I admire her greatly as an auteur, examining the human condition in a funny, growing, spirited, honestly dark and human way.