Just because you saw a vampire doesn't mean that a snowman or a Loch Ness Monster also exists.

I am a very nerdy guy. I understand that it's easier to cast me as a nerdy guy than an action star - although I would love to be an action star!

I love, love, love the street-cart food. Gyros are like a meat-flavored fruit roll-up. A meat roll-up.

The whole religion of Islam is based on reward and punishment and reward and punishment, and it becomes a part of how you think of everything. Even yourself.

Im from a family of doctors, and I think they really wanted me to be a doctor. I even sort of assumed I would be a doctor.

Living in Pakistan, you didn't have a sense of how huge and varied America was, geographically.

I was on this path to becoming a computer-science guy, but I didn't like it. I got no joy from it. It was very, very scary. It was suffocating to think that I was just going to do this thing for the rest of my life.