We need a self because the complexity of the chemical processes that make up our individual humanities exceeds the processing power of our brains.

Childbirth changed my perception of my wife. She was now the bloodied special forces soldier who had fought and risked everything for our family.

Islam is not a race, yet Islamophobia partakes of racist characteristics.

Empathy is about finding echoes of another person in yourself.

It seems an obvious thing to say, but you should not imagine that we Pakistanis are all potential terrorists, just as we should not imagine that you Americans are all undercover assassins.

I think sometimes feeling that you've been marginalized opens you up to the realization that, in their own lives, almost everyone experiences marginalization, a kind of foreigner sense.

All human stories are migration stories because everyone is a refugee from their own childhood.

Time only moves in one direction. Remember that. Things always change.

I think massive migration is inevitable. As sea levels rise, as climate change happens, as fertile fields become arid, as wars are fought, people are going to move. They always have.

When the uncertain future becomes the past, the past in turn becomes uncertain.

It's important to have a non-nostalgic view and say, let's look forward, because if we don't, all we'll hear are voices telling us to go back.

It is more important that a proposition be interesting than that it be true.

I came out of school just at the time regional theater was first expanding. All of a sudden, lots of new companies needed actors.

The hard work definitely paid off and hard work always does.

Fear and stress - one creates the other.

I got to show off in front of my husband, who married me as I was stepping out of the business, so he had no idea that I could strut my stuff on the stage.

Tact is rubbing out another's mistake instead of rubbing it in.

I believe the experiences of life are more important than any film you make.

Loafing" is easy, but "leisure" is difficult.

I have to not take myself too seriously and I have to realise that if it is meant to be, it will be.

I want to be a freaking feminist and wear a freaking Peter Pan collar. So freaking what?