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

Although I come from a family who are Muslim - my mother is Egyptian, my father is Palestinian - my mother only puts a veil on her head when she has a bad hair day.

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

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.

I think Hollywood makes the mistake of mixing all these identities and cultures, mostly from the Middle East.

I never had planned for my life and my career.