I just love stories, and I love movies, learning and seeing the world. Growing up in Iowa, it was like, you wanna see the world? Movies can help you do that.

There's a bunch of stuff I want to learn. Instead of waiting around on set all day, I'd rather be learning something cool.

I don't think a lot of people are calling me to play doctors and lawyers, which is fine with me. I can put a suit on, but I don't really like to.

After 'Game of Thrones,' having a character like that, that's like the pinnacle of your career.

One of the many problems with parenting is that kids keep changing. Just when you're used to one stage, they zoom into another.

When you have an American mother from the Midwest and an Egyptian father, you travel back and forth and see such completely different stories in the news about the exact same events. It makes you think, 'How is anybody able to understand or even have a dialogue when the basis of information is just so completely different?'

I have already spent Christmas Eve and Christmas morning alone, missing my children, and crying because I have no family nearby.

I like being married. I'm at home with my wife and kids all the time now. I don't go out for wild nights.