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

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

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.

People who discriminate understand that they are a stranger to others.

If you want a new tomorrow, then make new choices today.

No morality can be founded on authority even if the authority were divine.

You're supposed to be using your gifts and fulfilling your dreams, at every age.

Man's grandeur is that he knows himself to be miserable.

There came a moment in the middle of the song when he suddenly felt every heartbeat in the room & after that he never forgot that he was part of something much bigger

I have a lot of friends that are ex-Miss Alabamas and ex-Miss Georgias.

I have repeatedly said, when asked, that if the stories about me helped inspired our troops and rally a nation, then perhaps there was some good.

Are you nervous about no longer being a big fish in a small pond?

In the middle of my heart, a star appeared, and the seven heavens were lost in its brilliance.