Even for 'Lawrence of Arabia' I didn't ask to be an international actor, when going to America and becoming famous, it gave me glory but it gave me loneliness also and a lot of missing my own land and my own people and my own family. Omar Sharif More Quotes by Omar Sharif More Quotes From Omar Sharif Working gets in the way of living. Omar Sharif hateworklife My philosophy is that when I go out of my room, I'm prepared to love everybody I meet, unless they're bad. Omar Sharif preparedphilosophyrooms 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 sexpeoplethinking 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. Omar Sharif falling-in-lovegirladventure 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 menboysthinking 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. Omar Sharif talkingpeoplethinking For some men, nothing is Written unless they Write it. Omar Sharif arabiawritingmen 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. Omar Sharif givingpeoplethinking Making love? It's a communion with a woman. The bed is the holy table. There I find passion -- and purification. Omar Sharif passionmaking-lovesex 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. Omar Sharif hollywoodbeautifulpeople 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. Omar Sharif arabiawifechildren 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 blackeyehair 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. Omar Sharif passionbigsway I've always been extremely lucky in my life. Omar Sharif luckylife 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 lastswatchesyears I don't think I could live without a deck of cards in my hands. Omar Sharif cardshandsthinking 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 defectstheaterscene 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. Omar Sharif wiseadvicecharacter I can't say I gave up totally my passion for women but almost. Omar Sharif gave-upmy-passionpassion 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. Omar Sharif horsepassionlife
