I think the Arab world has no personality cult situation going on that they have in much of the Western world, South America included. They are a cul….

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

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 f….

When one nation is at war with another nation, the political machine does everything it can to vilify the people of the other nation, so it makes it ….

I'm not necessarily a good actor, but once people start saying you are, you are. And I know that that's a truism, and there's obviously nothing impor….

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

I think if you're good and you can persuade people you're going to be able to do that role and ultimately the audience buys it, then it doesn't matte….

The future of Arab films is absolutely up to Arabs and no one else. They've got the equipment, they've got the will, they've got the talent, now they….

Bin Laden actually is the most European or westernized of all the Arab leaders. He's the one who is the most polished ironically. He's smart and hand….

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 ….

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

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

You know, I find people with great honesty, bodily, physical honesty, who sit just the way they like to sit, and walk the way they like to walk, and ….

There are parts that you can do them all your life, and no one knows you're even acting, and there are other parts which somehow - I think they say t….

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

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