Sophie Okonedo

My main form of exercise is my bike. I don't have a car, so I cycle everywhere.

Being a character actor, I can go on until I'm 70 or 80; I'm not bound to the way I look.

I always try to think of positive things to say about the people I portray, as it's more helpful for me.

Well, I actually wrote her a letter a couple of days ago congratulating her. The tone I tried to convey in the letter is, look, you are a part of a great American historical process.

I once had this massacred afro in third grade. Parts were bigger than others. It was just terrible.

As a young child my attention span was, as I remember it, rather short.