It is weird. A lot of people try to ask me political questions. Im not a politician.

I left Somalia when I was seven years old, but I witnessed a whole year in a war.

I dont see myself only as a Somali character. I think of myself as an actor, and if the job fits me and I like the story, I will go for it.

I just want to keep acting and better my craft and see how far it goes.

I was lucky enough to have parents that took me out from country to country and go to school and learn how to be a better person.

The line was originally, ‘Captain Phillips, get a load of me: fancy-free on the seven seas,’ but I ad-libbed.

When you work with a great director, you realise you are far from being a director.

To add value to your life, serve others with love and kindness.

What we define ourselves us can sometimes bring forth the best images of ourselves--or vice versa, will create some of the worst restrictions we place on our lives.

Her direct stare probed, as if the story of my life were written in my eyes in a few succinct lines that she could read.

A popular song is one that makes us all think we can sing.

The most welcome joke to me is the one that takes the place of a heavy, not altogether innocuous thought, at once a cautionary hint of the finger and a flash of the eye.

I prefer cynical people. Nice guys grow on trees.

Im merely a dreamer, and then a writer, and my happiest moments are when I'm a reader.

The way things are going the faces on next year's bubble-gum cards will be lawyers.

Men become friends by a community of pleasures.

A clear sentence is no accident.