Omar Sharif
From the age of 31, I have lived in hotels.Collection: Age
Working gets in the way of living.
I'd rather be playing bridge than making a bad movie.
I don't think I could live without a deck of cards in my hands.
I don't know what women are attracted to. I can't tell, but certainly I have no notion of having sex appeal or being seductive in any way.
My philosophy is that when I go out of my room, I'm prepared to love everybody I meet, unless they're bad.
I can't say I gave up totally my passion for women but almost.
I love to be with my son and my grandchildren, like normal people. I have no particular idea of what I represent to other people. It's very mysterious to me. I don't understand it.
I don't know what sex appeal is. I don't think you can have sex appeal knowingly. The people who seduce me personally are the people who seem not to know they're seductive, and not to know they have sex appeal.
There are lots of wonderful old Italian actors. You don't need to take an Egyptian to play an Italian actor.
I see only defects because I'm not following the scene as it were. I'm not following the other person. It's like the best thing to clarify this is the theater.
I'm very wary about giving advice. I think it's very dangerous to give advice to people, except if you know them very well.
I don't think any actor feels comfortable watching themselves in movies. You must be very narcissistic. The problem with your own opinion of yourself is that contrary to the normal spectators, when you watch a film you are in, you only watch yourself.
I want to live every moment totally and intensely. Even when I'm giving an interview or talking to people, that's all that I'm thinking about.
Women know when they've got the menopause but men don't quite know. They know it afterwards.
I had too many big passions in life and it gets in the way of work. You can't concentrate properly on the one thing.
I didn't want to be a slave to any passion anymore. I gave up card playing altogether, even bridge and gambling - more or less. It took me a few years to get out of it.
See these hands? They are old. But they are soft. Only good for caressing.
I tried on a moustache, and it was decided I would grow one. I've shaved it off for a couple of films, but otherwise, I've had it ever since.
My mother used to play cards with King Farouk. He believed she brought good luck to him - she was his mascot.
I like football very much. That's what I like. I play it quite well.
I was a fat little boy when I was 10 years old! My mother, who didn't speak any English at all, said, 'I know the only thing is to put him in an English boarding school. The food will be so horrible that he'll lose his weight.'
I made French films and other films and a lot of Arabic films, but what I like is English for myself.
Peter O'Toole - I really loved that man. They sent me into the desert, and I lived there with him for 100 days. And there were no women! Can you believe it?
Children are wonderful!
For some men, nothing is Written unless they Write it.Collection: Writing
I never fell in love with another woman. I cannot have a relationship with a woman if I'm not in love...I'm a very particular person, I'm not very much interested in short adventures with women or girls. I have to fall in love with someone in order to have a realtionship with her.Collection: Girl
They chose me for Lawrence of Arabia because I spoke English, had black hair, black eyes and a moustache. It was all luck.Collection: Eye
Making love? It's a communion with a woman. The bed is the holy table. There I find passion -- and purification.Collection: Sex
This is one of the factors that also made me very much want to make this film, apart from the fact that I loved it. If the boy hadn't been Jewish and the man hadn't been Muslim, it wouldn't have made any difference to the film. I don't think it's relevant, really.Collection: Men
I've always been extremely lucky in my life.Collection: Life
I'll never know what my life would have been like if they hadn't made Lawrence of Arabia. What would I be? I would maybe have 10 children, a very fat wife. I would be very fat myself. I don't know.Collection: Children
People don't have to be beautiful any more. We don't have any Audrey Hepburns, Rita Hayworths or Ava Gardeners. When you look at Al Pacino and the greatest actors in Hollywood they're all common-looking.Collection: Beautiful
I decided I didn't want to be a slave to any passion any more except for my work, i had too many passions - bridge, horses, gambling. I want to live a different kind of life, be with my family more because I didn't give them enough time.Collection: Life
I don't watch any films. Billy Elliot is the only film I've seen in the last 25 years. Oh, and ET. Both of which I loved!Collection: Years
This character in the film, these things that he says which sound like advice and wise things, they are very common for Orientals. It's all the tradition.Collection: Wise
To learn bad dialogue is so difficult and so boring, and to work with a stupid director who tells you to do the wrong thing, etcetera, it's just unbearable.Collection: Stupid
He read his mind. He's a strange sort of man, isn't he? It's not just the advice and the wisdom that he has.Collection: Wisdom
The reason it has relevance is because I, as a popular Arab personality - the Arab people like me and respect me - thought it was time for me to make an ever so tiny statement about what I thought about this whole thing.Collection: Respect
They didn't accept me theory - not a theory, but just a thought I had about this character. I noticed that this man only exists when the boy comes into the grocery.Collection: Character