Yasmine Al Masri

I never had planned for my life and my career.

In TV, you don't know everything. The writers only give you scripts before you shoot the episodes. They keep you on your nerve.

Although I come from a family who are Muslim - my mother is Egyptian, my father is Palestinian - my mother only puts a veil on her head when she has a bad hair day.

I had siblings from South Asia, from East Asia, from depressed communities around America, and you know, we'd have long conversations.

Shaft was a pop culture figure along t he lines of, I guess, Dirty Harry - except that he wasn't as much of a racist. So yeah, I was always a fan.

Hollywood is a place where they'll pay you a thousand dollars for a kiss and fifty cents for your soul.