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

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.

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

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.

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

Life is not so simple as you think without taking those risks, trying everything to make ends meet.

Life is short, Love is Endless. Live and love life to the full!

Ironically, the only gun control in 19th century England was the policy forbidding police to have arms while on duty.

It's important to focus on the solution, not the problem.

When I started writing my stories, I thought that not only nobody outside my language, but nobody outside my neighbourhood would get them.

Better confide and be deceiv'd, A thousand times, by treacherous foes, Than once accuse the innocent, Or let suspicion mar repose.

Place before your eyes two Precepts, and two only. One is, Preach the Gospel; and the other is--Put down enthusiasm!The Church of England in a nutshell.

Just because I disagree with you doesn't mean I'm disagreeable.

Belief in the supernatural or belief in wild talents like precognition and telepathy and telekinesis and things like that, it seems to me that belief in those things is just very, very freeing.

Singing is not about timbres or category labels, singing is about fascinating acoustical properties like the colors of the human voice which derive from thought and emotion.