Omar Sharif Quotes

Working gets in the way of living.

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'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 had too many big passions in life and it gets in the way of work. You can't concentrate properly on the one thing.

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

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

I've always been extremely lucky in my life.

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

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

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.

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.

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.

There are lots of wonderful old Italian actors. You don't need to take an Egyptian to play an Italian actor.

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!

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.