People Quotes by Barkhad Abdi

I like 'The Usual Suspects'. Great film. I also like 'Scarface', films like that. Lots of gangster films. I really like watching all kinds…

— Barkhad Abdi

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

— Barkhad Abdi

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…

— Barkhad Abdi

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

— Barkhad Abdi

I don't see myself only as a Somali character. I think of myself as an actor, and if the job fits me and I…

— Barkhad Abdi

I would DJ pool parties in Minneapolis, but I never swam there!

— Barkhad Abdi

I dont see myself only as a Somali character. I think of myself as an actor, and if the job fits me and I…

— Barkhad Abdi

I used to play football all the time. In the U.S., people don't play football, so I had to learn basketball. Looking back, that's…

— Barkhad Abdi

When I was leaving Yemen to come to America, things were tough. My dad had just been laid off, and it was a challenge.…

— Barkhad Abdi

It is weird. A lot of people try to ask me political questions. I'm not a politician.

— Barkhad Abdi

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

— Barkhad Abdi

The line was originally, ‘Captain Phillips, get a load of me: fancy-free on the seven seas,’ but I ad-libbed.

— Barkhad Abdi