Quotes from O. T. Fagbenle

As a man, having a conversation about feminism can be tricky - the best I can do is to have assumptions and ask questions. You always run the risk of putting your foot in it.

Love is a hard thing to turn your back on.

I came to the States less to find fortune and fame and more to kind of have a life experience of seeing something new.

My full name is Olatunde Olateju Olaolorun Fagbenle. I was named after my grandfather. It's Yoruba, which is, like, southern Nigeria.

'The Interceptor' has an excitement and grittiness to it, but it's also very entertaining. It lives in this sphere of a slightly heightened reality where, although you completely identify and recognise all the characters in it, they're fun and exciting to watch.

I think what often happens when people leave their spouse for someone else is they tend to go for the opposite of what they already have.

I think, unfortunately, we've always lived in a world of massive inequality: inequality between the haves and the have-nots, inequality between men and women that not only exists temporally but geographically as well.

Oakland's got a lot of character.

I think what we forget is that everybody loses when we keep unnecessary privilege. The cost to society overall is much greater.

When representation of the LBGT community was much more scarce in the media, I think there was some kind of pressure to encapsulate an entire community in a single character - this can often be a fast track to generalization and stereotypes.

I think you can judge a man by the size of what offends him.

I've always had an explorative drive to my art, as opposed to wanting to achieve some certain goal.

I loved doing my own stunts, and so, as much as the insurance people would allow me, I would get involved.

Television is obviously changing; the way we consume media is changing, so I think it's natural that we are going to try different styles.

The older I get, the more I dance like my dad, and I'm finding that suddenly cardigans are becoming more attractive to me.

My family are quite academic, and I was set to study economics and politics at university.