Omar Sharif Quotes

• Working gets in the way of living.

  Omar Sharif

  Life, Hate, Work

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• My philosophy is that when I go out of my room, I'm prepared to love everybody I meet, unless they're bad.

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  Philosophy, Rooms, Prepared

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• 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.

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  Thinking, People, Giving

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• For some men, nothing is Written unless they Write it.

  Omar Sharif

  Writing, Men, Arabia

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• 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.

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  Girl, Falling In Love, Adventure

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• They chose me for Lawrence of Arabia because I spoke English, had black hair, black eyes and a moustache. It was all luck.

  Omar Sharif

  Eye, Hair, Black

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• Making love? It's a communion with a woman. The bed is the holy table. There I find passion -- and purification.

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  Sex, Passion, Making Love

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• 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.

  Omar Sharif

  Sex, Thinking, People

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• 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.

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  Thinking, Talking, People

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• I don't think I could live without a deck of cards in my hands.

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  Thinking, Hands, Cards

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• 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.

  Omar Sharif

  Men, Thinking, Boys

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• I can't say I gave up totally my passion for women but almost.

  Omar Sharif

  Passion, Gave Up, My Passion

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• 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.

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  Passion, Way, Bigs

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• 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.

  Omar Sharif

  Sex, Seductive, Way

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I've always been extremely lucky in my life.

  Omar Sharif

  Life, Lucky

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• 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.

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  Children, Wife, Arabia

  "Omar Sharif: knave of hearts". Interview with Tim Dowling, www.theguardian.com. March 22, 2004.

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• 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.

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  Beautiful, People, Hollywood

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• Women know when they've got the menopause but men don't quite know. They know it afterwards.

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  Men, He Man, Menopause

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• 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.

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  Life, Horse, Passion

  "Biography/ Mini Bio". www.imdb.com.

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• 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!

  Omar Sharif

  Years, Watches, Lasts

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• 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.

  Omar Sharif

  Scene, Theater, Defects

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• 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.

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  Wise, Character, Advice

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• 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.

  Omar Sharif

  Stupid, Directors, Etcetera

  "Omar Sharif: knave of hearts" by Tim Dowling, www.theguardian.com. March 22, 2004.

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• 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.

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  Movie, Thinking, Watches

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• 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.

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  Passion, Years, Bridges

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