I Left Iran Back In 1985. I

When I Was I Kid, There Were So Many Different Things That I Wanted To Be. As An Actor, I Get A Chance To Be All Of Those Things, At Least For A Couple Of Days, Which Is Fun.

You Just Need To Put Yourself In Someone Else's Shoes And Then See How They Feel And Then You Will Understand Why They Are Reacting Or Why They Are Behaving The Way That They Are Behaving. We Need To Be Fair.

As An Actor Sometimes We Sit And Wait For Projects To Be Handed To Us And We Don't Really Work. We Expect Our Agents And Managers To Know Who We Are And To See Who We Are And Offer Us A Part Or Send Us Out And Submit Us.

I Like 'shameless.' The First Season I Just Watched It Straight Through. I Literally Didn't Get Up. I Just Had To Finish It.

Before 9/11, I Was Playing A Wide Range Of Characters. I Would Play A Lover, A Cop, A Father. As Long As I Could Create The Illusion Of The Character, The Part Was Given To Me. But After 9/11, Something Changed. We Became The Villains, The Bad Guys. I Don't Mind To Play The Bad Guy As Long As The Bad Guy Has A Base.