I'm not really a food connoisseur.

If you don't acknowledge differences, it's as bad as stereotyping or reducing someone.

Indian culture is essentially much more of a we culture. It's a communal culture where you do what's best for the community - you procreate.

We are Muslims. My father would pawn off his Muslim in-laws as Hindus just so that he could get free pancakes.

Voter fraud does just barely exist, while racism, according to the Supreme Court, is a thing of the past.

If you choose to be a Muslim then you believe that it is on some level wrong to show the image of the Prophet Muhammad.

I thought [when I was 16] my days were just going to be spent hanging out on a beach and my girlfriend was going to be Miss Teen USA and my best friend will be a dolphin.

I've always said I'm the worst representative of Muslim-Americans that's ever existed, because I've been inside more bars than mosques.

When you're brown and Indian, you get offered a lot of doctor roles.

People lament that there's no roles being written for South Asian or Muslim characters. But their parents don't want their children to go into the entertainment field. You don't get it both ways.

It's an organic thing that I try not to analyze too much, because I worry that it will go away.

Whittle was an amazing chap. Tiny, stubborn, unstoppable - jet-propelled! It's amazing the impact his invention has had upon the world.

God made man, and then said I can do better than that and made woman.

A marriage is not primarily a duet but a holy trio.

The political is personal.

Ive struggled just as much as anyone else.

Hollywood has unfortunately become a memory. It's nothing but a sign on the side of a hill.

You can’t force yourself to trust. So you put all your doubts in a little box and bury it deep and then try to forget where you buried it

A poet never takes notes. You never take notes in a love affair.

I actually think it's going to be the intriguing plot [ in Black Snake Moan] point that brings people into the film.

Dorian Yates and I have nothing in common, physically speaking. He's a Volkswagen; I'm a Porsche.