Follow your heart. Do what you love. Because I was constantly struggling with that. If it's in your heart, go for it. Don't listen to other people.

Americans don't know a lot about the Middle East - [they] don't know we laugh.

When I told my parents I wanted to be an actor, my mom was, like, I think I heard you say lawyer.

You know, funny can be universal.

If you do finish the book and are still scared of me and people of my ilk, then I recommend you schedule an appointment with a therapist. Either that, or try writing your own book

One thing about D.C. that's funny to me is that you end up running into famous political figures who you've seen on television who you think are not real until you see them.

I've made enough jokes about Iran's leadership that I'm sure if I showed up that I would get a nice escort - to the main prison - and then I could do a show there.

I remembered, like, when 'Not When My Daughter' came out, I'm serious, I think dating for Iranian men became a lot harder. Dude's name, Shahrokh - became Tony. Mehsud became Mike.

I think comedy is a good way to help people change their minds. I think that if you're laughing and getting a message across, it's a lot easier than when somebody is screaming in your face.

I can’t teach you how to write, and anybody who says they can is full of shit.

When everybody loves me, I will never be lonely.

I love leaving the house in a new outfit; I don't feel the pressure at all.

I believe that cinema picks up ideas from society and not the other way round.

What's the difference between a bright, inquisitive five-year-old, and a dull, stupid nineteen-year-old? Fourteen years of the British educational system.

The most difficult thing to read is time. Maybe because it changes so many things.

I tell em everybody else is my opposite. I put em on the game give em five percent.

Her stillness was such a contrast to all the jumbled communication inside me that I suddenly felt what a tiresome fellow I was, always filling the air with the rattle of words and anxieties.

Yes, I know and then in the same time period within those nine years I lost 150 pounds.

What is concisely referred to as global warming, is a fatal mistake of the present time.