Barkhad Abdi

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

— 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…

— 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…

— 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…

— 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…

— Barkhad Abdi

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

— 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

I was lucky enough to have parents that took me out from country to country and go to school and learn how…

— Barkhad Abdi

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

— Barkhad Abdi

I was never interested in becoming an actor. I was directing videos. I was never into acting. I was into shooting music…

— Barkhad Abdi