I didn't want to be an actress. I wasn't trying to be in film or an art gallery for me.

To be a veiled Muslim woman on screen is a very scary minefield for me.

I come from a family of refugees. I'm used to surviving and going with the flow, and what happened to me was just life.

I am a contradiction myself. I'm always looking for something that scares me because when I'm not scared, I'm not stimulated.

In TV, you don't know everything. The writers only give you scripts before you shoot the episodes. They keep you on your nerve.

I am part of this generation with 'Pirates of the Caribbean' and 'Peter Pan.' I think we all grew up in this culture of pirates.