Being a new character is like going to a new school. You have to try to maintain your own autonomy and your own personality.

Sometimes you can forget about who you are in a relationship. But you can also be inspired by the person you are with to become something you always knew you wanted to become.

If you're always strict with yourself, life gets miserable. And we're supposed to enjoy life.

My parents were overprotective because you could get kidnapped and bombs were exploding in the streets.

Hollywood is kind of a bad world.

When you choose to do a role, I think you can either be that person or have the potential of being that person.

I love to dance so much. It's one of my guilty pleasures in life and my hobby.

One can only hope the person you love will make you the best version of yourself.

Sometimes I like to think that characters you play are all the other people you could've been in a lifetime.

If something's important to you, you make time for it.

The ocean inspires me because there's the energy of the water moving.

It's crazy to close doors to any genres.

The designer of a new kind of system must participate fully in the implementation.

There has been hardly a single year since 1917, and in a certain sense since 1905, without a revolution somewhere in the world in which the workers participated in a rather important way.

Most modern freedom is at root fear. It is not so much that we are too bold to endure rules; it is rather that we are too timid to endure responsibilities.

Oh fair, oh sweet and holy as dew at morning tide, I gaze on thee, and yearnings, sad in my bosom hide.

Dhikr (remembrance of Allah) is to the heart as water is to a fish; see what happens to a fish when it is taken out of water

I feel that cinema is my country. But it's not my business.

The reward of patience Is patience.

There is a wind of nationalism and freedom blowing round the world, and blowing as strongly in Asia as elsewhere.