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Someone once asked me what I missed most. I said, 'My youth.' I've never been a boy who could run around, go crazy, do this, try that. There wasn't time for that.

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

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You can give me any of Shakespeare's plays and I'll tell you a parallel African folktale.

I will always vote. I have done so, ever since 1994.

I spent 51 years under apartheid. I don't imagine suffering. I know it.

I did 'Sizwe Bansi is Dead' for 34 years.

When I tried to do 'Waiting for Godot, it was such a controversy. I was tired of political theatre. All I wanted to do was 'Godot.' You know what happened? We were told we had messed up and politicised a...

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

Shakespeare examines how democracy is built.

I still remember the moment when my teacher, Mr. Budaza, walked into class and said, 'Today we are going to study 'Julius Caesar,' one of Shakespeare's most important plays.'

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 Some of the most brutal race laws had been relaxed, but they hadn't yet been repealed.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.

I'd read Shakespeare in school, translated into isiXhosa, and loved the stories, but I hadn't realised before I started reading the English text how powerful the language was - the great surging speeches Othello has.

And I'm part of the generation of South Africans who feel we're lucky to be alive.

Whenever I play Shakespeare, I keep thinking, 'how did this Englishman know so much about me?'

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.

My stories are about humanity, about the challenges of surviving and the constant fight against ignorance, inhumanity and complacency.

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

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

Shakespeare's words paint pictures in glorious colour in my language. They were written by a man whose use of words fits exactly into Xhosa.

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.

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