I come from a family of refugees. I'm used to surviving and going with the flow, and what happened to me was just life.

- Yasmine Al Masri

I am a contradiction myself. I'm always looking for something that scares me because when I'm not scared, I'm not stimulated.

- Yasmine Al Masri

I am especially fascinated with mermaids, and they are always coming out in pirate stories.

- Yasmine Al Masri

I am part of this generation with 'Pirates of the Caribbean' and 'Peter Pan.' I think we all grew up in this culture of pirates.

- Yasmine Al Masri

I didn't want to be an actress. I wasn't trying to be in film or an art gallery for me.

- Yasmine Al Masri

I never had planned for my life and my career.

- Yasmine Al Masri

I think Hollywood makes the mistake of mixing all these identities and cultures, mostly from the Middle East.

- Yasmine Al Masri

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

- Yasmine Al Masri

To be a veiled Muslim woman on screen is a very scary minefield for me.

- Yasmine Al Masri

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.

- Yasmine Al Masri

I have a baby that is 21 months old, and I watch Disney Junior with him. A lot of those shows are about pirates. Even the T-shirts and pajamas I buy for him have pirate themes like, 'Aye-aye, argh and mate.' But, I definitely grew up watching pirates.

- Yasmine Al Masri