I left Iran back in 1985. I lived in Turkey for a while, then I went to Germany. I joined a theater company there, and we toured the country.

I grew up on Harold Lloyd, Charles Chaplin, and Buster Keaton, and those were the ones who inspired me.

I grew up during the Revolution of Iran and the war between Iran and Iraq. The things that I saw. The impact. How it changes you. How it changes the way you look at the world.

I speak Farsi, German, Dari, and I understand Turkish, but I haven't used it since 1985, so I'm a bit rusty.

I like 'Shameless.' The first season I just watched it straight through. I literally didn't get up. I just had to finish it.

I like 'Breaking Bad' and 'Game of Thrones.' I like that era. I like that fantasy world.

I think we're always intrigued by things we're not familiar with.

When I was I kid, there were so many different things that I wanted to be. As an actor, I get a chance to be all of those things, at least for a couple of days, which is fun.

When I was little, my dad used to tell me, "Will, you can pick your friends, and you can pick your nose, but you can't pick your friends nose.

It was like discovering that some part of you wasn't yours at all. And it made me wonder what else I couldn't claim.

There is no rest for the person who has envy, and there is no love for the person who has bad manners.

I started as a writer and when I sent my demos out everyone wanted to know who was singing and if that person wanted a record deal.

Now and then, when I look round on my books, they seem to waver as if a wind rippled their solid mass, and another world were about to break through.

I'm definitely the first no.1 in the world since Fischer, and probably at least since Kasparov, who probably has the most potential to dominate for the foreseeable future.

I don't really do acting. I've done a little bit - enough to know I'll stick to what I know. Music is my thing.

It has been convincingly demonstrated that countries where there are high rates of poverty, or high rates of economic inequality, are the countries with the highest rates of religious beliefs.

In the supposed state of nature, all men are equally bound by the laws of nature, or to speak more properly, the laws of the Creator.