I wish everybody was just ethnically ambiguous. It would make life a lot easier.

There's enough of a willingness in the West to do sympathetic movies about Arab roles.

You really expose yourself when you try and go to up the volume and up the size of your performance.

Something most people don't know about me is that I never grew up.

I'm one of the luckiest Arab actors on the planet, because I've done, I think, two of the finest Arab roles that have been out in mainstream cinema for a very long time.

You're not actually being a good actor all the time. But people refer to me as a good actor because they read it someplace, not because they've made up their own mind. So I'm very lucky!

I love sci-fi, computer games. I love any escapes. Give me them all.

For me, it's painful to make a movie. It's not my normal rhythm.

My mother says we’re supposed to make mistakes. That’s the way we learn.” Rocky Ryan in Bully At Ambush Corner.

Posterity will say as usual: "In the past things were better the present is worse than the past."

I also have to speak out for people around me who are afraid, who think it is not worth it or who have totally given up hope. So I want to set an example: you can do it and this is OK, to speak out.

At the risk of seeming ridiculous, let me say that the true revolutionary is guided by a great feeling of love. It is impossible to think of a genuine revolutionary lacking this quality.

I don't mind telling a dark side.

It is because the method of physics does not satisfy the comprehension that we have to go on further.

I'm a world-class people watcher. I like to watch people's body movements, their expressions. It says so much about them.

I believe here's what the Bible teaches and from the Christian faith this is what I believe.

Just as being nice to the arrogant is no better than being arrogant toward the nice, being accommodating toward anyone committing a nefarious action condones it.

I would be a fool to lose my heart to him, but I am tempted more each day.