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

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.

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

You can't understand depth of science, unless you challenge the published scientific data.

Like any / unloved thing, I don’t know if I’m real /when I’m not being touched.

When the business people get done with the arts, all that’s left will be entertainment.

Habent sua fata libelli et balli [Books and bullets have their own destinies]

Sometimes I wish life had a fast-forward button.

Boys do not leave their boyhood behind when they leave off their school uniform.

We put ourselves there. The door to hell is locked from the inside.

We are not about to send American boys 9 or 10 thousand miles away from home to do what Asian boys ought to be doing for themselves.

I think you have to grieve the loss of youth before you can claim the joy on the other side of it.

There are life lessons that can be derived from reality television.