Everybody grows up with comedy. I mean, Egyptian comedy has a very, very old tradition. Our theater and our movies are just, like, amazing.

It is very difficult to imagine that you can actually get rid of a dictatorship that has been there for 60 years only in 18 days.

The only the way that you can live and function without seeing the facts in front of you is to put yourself in a constant state of denial.

I'm sure even in America, where you have, like, free speech people self-censor themself. And it's not - it happens because of different reasons. Because maybe it's politically incorrect, it doesn't have to really to be put in jail.

I always tell people that a revolution is not an event, it's a process. It is a struggle. And it doesn't usually go smoothly.

We have Internet now and people are not stupid. But it seems that some people are trying to push the same agenda of the Cold War of conspiracy theories and amazing achievements that are very easily traced and validated.

People say, 'Are you afraid? Are you scared for your life?' and I tell them: If I choose today to tone it down, if I choose today to shut up, tomorrow me, you, and all of us will be forced to.