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"I wasn't satisfied just to earn a good living. I was looking to make a statement."

"The value of tolerance is central to living in today's world - especially in diverse places like the Bronx."

"Trouble is the common denominator of living. It is the great equalizer."

"I finally decided if I was going to make a living, I was gonna have to come to New York."

"I don't think that's changed at all. I think there are a thousand stocks out there that could make you rich, totally independent of what you do for a living."

"It took me about eight years to put together the program that I have been living for twenty years."
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"They didn't accept me theory - not a theory, but just a thought I had about this character. I noticed that this man only exists when the boy comes into the grocery."

"He read his mind. He's a strange sort of man, isn't he? It's not just the advice and the wisdom that he has."

"The reason it has relevance is because I, as a popular Arab personality - the Arab people like me and respect me - thought it was time for me to make an ever so tiny statement about what I thought about this whole thing."

"I'm very wary about giving advice. I think it's very dangerous to give advice to people, except if you know them very well."

"I had too many big passions in life and it gets in the way of work. You can't concentrate properly on the one thing."

"This is one of the factors that also made me very much want to make this film, apart from the fact that I loved it. If the boy hadn't been Jewish and the man hadn't been Muslim, it wouldn't have made any difference to the film. I don't think it's relevant, really."

"My philosophy is that when I go out of my room, I'm prepared to love everybody I meet, unless they're bad."

"I don't think any actor feels comfortable watching themselves in movies. You must be very narcissistic. The problem with your own opinion of yourself is that contrary to the normal spectators, when you watch a film you are in, you only watch yourself."

"I don't know what sex appeal is. I don't think you can have sex appeal knowingly. The people who seduce me personally are the people who seem not to know they're seductive, and not to know they have sex appeal."
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