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.

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.

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

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

Worry looks back, Hope looks forward, but Faith always looks up.

Nobody's going to fight for you as much as you fight for yourself.

My reading preferences are kind of all over the board - I read nonfiction, I read graphic novels.

We point to our unhappy circumstances to rationalize our negative feelings. This is the easy way out. It takes, after all, very little effort to feel victimized.

To get up in the morning, wash and then wait for some unforeseen variety of dread or depression. I would give the whole universe and all of Shakespeare for a grain of ataraxy.

For 'Star Wars' I had to develop a whole new idea about special effects to give it the kind of kinetic energy I was looking for. I did it with motion-control photography.

The object of education is not to fill a man's mind with facts; it is to teach him how to use his mind in thinking.

I think my siblings sometimes have to defend me within their social circles - they are both barristers.

I am trying so hard to live in the moment and enjoy it while it's happening, because it feels like a moving freight train that I just got on, and I'm trying not to look back and get dizzy!

I think . . . I said things to Silas. He'll be angry.' 'If he didn't care about you, you couldn't upset him,' was all she said.