“It is weird. A lot of people try to ask me political questions. Im not a politician.”

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 left Somalia when I was seven years old, but I witnessed a whole year in a war.

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.

What I believe will make my acting career successful going forward is hard work. I like to challenge myself. Then it’s the people I meet and choosing the projects I want to work on correctly. There’s a lot of characters I can play.

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

I just want to keep acting and better my craft and see how far it goes.

There is no worse heresy than that the office sanctifies the holder of it.

Liberty is not a means to a higher political end. It is itself the highest political end.

Political differences essentially depend on disagreement in moral principles.

Fascism is definitely and absolutely opposed to the doctrines of liberalism, both in the political and economic sphere.

[E]conomic history is a long record of government policies that failed because they were designed with a bold disregard for the laws of economics

Liberty and good government do not exclude each other; and there are excellent reasons why they should go together.

Liberty is not a means to a higher political end. It is itself the highest political end…liberty is the only object which benefits all alike, and provokes no sincere opposition…

If you begin to consider yourself solely responsible to a political party, you’re half-way to a dictatorship.