Maybe for you in America, Dr. King has become boring because you hear about him so much. But for me, he is the man who has most inspired me.
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We have to remember that Dr. King was not an idle dreamer. Dr. King was a man of action. If Dr. King were here, he would challenge us and exhort us.
Dr. King was unpopular while he was alive - he's only popular now because he's dead and not a threat to anyone.
My role on television is one of helping people reexamine the assumptions that they hold. I regard Dr. King. You would never hear me get up and speak without in some way, shape or form, referencing, Dr. King.
When Dr. King was murdered, I had no idea who he was. But as soon as I heard his words on television that night when I was 9 years old, I was dumbstruck, awestruck by their power.
I had always known that I couldn't play Dr. King purely out of my own ability as an actor. When you look at him give those speeches, you can tell that he is taken up by something other than himself. He is flowing with an anointing that is directly from God.
Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. is one of my personal heroes.
'Dr Who' is an extraordinary association that I have because I didn't realise until I was in the show quite how worldwide it is and how popular and how dear it is to so many people's hearts.
Dr. King's Nobel Prize had a more powerful transforming effect on him than I think he realized at the time.
Every viewer who ever turned on 'Doctor Who' has taken him into his heart. He belongs to all of us.
He was incredibly good as Dr Who. He brought all his eccentricities to the role and was so charismatic and charming. He must be the fans firm favourite.
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