It is very difficult to imagine that you can actually get rid of a dictatorship that has been there for 60 years only in 18 days.

People say, 'Are you afraid? Are you scared for your life?' and I tell them: If I choose today to tone it down, if I choose today to shut up, tomorrow me, you, and all of us will be forced to.

It is very depressing to see that in the 21st century people are still using the same 1950s and '60s style of propaganda.

I always tell people that a revolution is not an event, it's a process. It is a struggle. And it doesn't usually go smoothly.

People would believe propagate, spread rumors or conspiracy theories in order to protect their own system of denial.

Egypt is kind of like the Hollywood of the Middle East. I mean, we had cinema maybe decades before the other Arab countries ever got independence.

The worst thing ever that you have to explain your joke because I was very disappointed trying to explain why the joke is funny for the interrogator.

Satire has its limits. It is really up to the people to make the change. The satirist's role ends at the screen.

Everybody grows up with comedy. I mean, Egyptian comedy has a very, very old tradition. Our theater and our movies are just, like, amazing.

There are people who believe in Egypt that I - I'm actually - I'm getting paid by external powers and external intelligence entities in order to use satire to bring down the government.

The only the way that you can live and function without seeing the facts in front of you is to put yourself in a constant state of denial.

I think you should live every moment like tomorrow is your last day, but you should also plan for the future like you will be living another hundred years.

This story has no moral. If it points out an evil at any rate it suggests no remedy.

Save the World-ers

There will be strange ebbs and flows in the tide of race feelings.

Every limbo boy and girl, all around the limbo world. Gonna do the limbo rock, all around the limbo clock.

Football is a very short-term proposition. Football really prepares you for nothing. The only thing I got out of football was the ability to work hard, and that's it.

A Horcrux is the complete opposite of a human being.

I feel like I've been able to live a dream life, but my view of things is absolutely inside behavior about how I behave and how I count on other people behaving.

The man who leaves money to charity in his will is only giving away what no longer belongs to him

I hated art as a kid. I didn't even like art class. I didn't like to draw. I would make my dad do all the drawings because I hated it so much.