We’ve got the right to vote, but what does it mean? People now want to have the right to a job, the right to education, the right to medical services. John Kani Read Quote
We are sort of not at the level of entertainment that the Western world is. Everything we see on the play in the screen, we read, we take serious. We take that it speaks to me. And so wonderful to see how the Johannesburg, South African audiences will say: What does it say to me? What does it make me feel? Why am I celebrating it? John Kani Read Quote
In Australia, I almost became a counsellor. At the end of each performance there would be a queue of sobbing people backstage. They all wanted to explain why they left South Africa. John Kani Read Quote
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. John Kani Read Quote
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. John Kani Read Quote
When the situation politically became intolerable within South Africa, we used the arts as a weapon for change. John Kani Read Quote
Any older actor knows the last great mountain to climb is to play King Lear and now, if I ever play Lear, I will have done the pre-preparation because I had to go into the play and read it over and over again. John Kani Read Quote