You really expose yourself when you try and go to up the volume and up the size of your performance.

I wish everybody was just ethnically ambiguous. It would make life a lot easier.

There's enough of a willingness in the West to do sympathetic movies about Arab roles.

Something most people don't know about me is that I never grew up.

I'm one of the luckiest Arab actors on the planet, because I've done, I think, two of the finest Arab roles that have been out in mainstream cinema for a very long time.

You're not actually being a good actor all the time. But people refer to me as a good actor because they read it someplace, not because they've made up their own mind. So I'm very lucky!

I love sci-fi, computer games. I love any escapes. Give me them all.

For me, it's painful to make a movie. It's not my normal rhythm.

One kind deed is more beautiful than a thousand good intentions.

The most effective weapon is love.

How evil life must be if it were indeed necessary that such imploring cries, such cries of physical and moral wretchedness, should ever and ever ascend to heaven!

It is an act of courage to acknowledge our own uncertainty and sit with it for a while.

Talking with most people usually involves a search for truth. Talking with congressmen is strictly special effects.

On the Iberian Peninsula in the Spanish-Portuguese area, southern France that high state of a culture existed there because of Africans known as Moors had come there and brought it there.

Start small; Think possibilities; Reach beyond your known abilities; Invest all you have in your dream; Visualize miracles; Expect to experience success.

Dinosaurs did not walk with humans. The evolutionary record says different. They gambled.

Gladly we desire to make other men perfect, but we will not amend our own fault.