I dont know how to get bored. I need to learn to rest.

At the end of the day, I remain a country boy inside.

Im an actor, full stop. Not an Arab actor. Not an actor of Algerian origin. Just an actor.

I recall the first time my agent told me to wear clothes specifically chosen for me, I would try and find excuses not to do it.

I learned to walk on my own legs, to dive so deeply into a role to forget that Im acting.

Sometimes you do things without knowing the plan or how many cameras. You serve the camera - that's the big difference.

Everybody is not completely traumatised by their life.

I sometimes feel that racism is getting worse.

I knew Id have to go to Paris eventually, and I didnt want to be the provincial kid who just turns up and says, I want to act.

I dont spend much time on Twitter. I joined because I found it funny.

Where did you grow up?" He wiggled his eyebrows at her. "Who says I've grown up?

Mostly, I was only interested in television as a kid, and the majority of reading material I collected was an adjunct to that central concern, comic books and magazines included.

I would never betray a friend to serve a cause. Never reject a friend to help an institution. Great nations may fall in ruin before I would sell a friend to save them.

I've been very lucky. Directors I've worked with have been very amenable to changes.

Kundalini is seen as a serpent that can shoot up the shushumna, past the chakras, opening them all and bringing you into different states of awareness.

The media loves to take things like that [Rocky Marciano couldn't hold my jockstrap] out of context. There was no harm meant when I said that, but plenty of harm came from it.

Who are we? That is the big question. And essentially we are just an upright-walking, big-brained, super-intelligent ape.

The days of the 'intuitive' manager are numbered.

Ice dance should not be seen as a rigid conformist form of figure skating. There is a great deal of freedom and originality to be had.

Show as much interest in what your children tell you as they have in telling you.