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" I don't think I could live without a deck of cards in my hands. "
Omar Sharif
Hands
Deck
Cards
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" I can't say I gave up totally my passion for women but almost. "
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Passion
" 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. "
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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. "
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Think
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Me
" From the age of 31, I have lived in hotels. "
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Lived
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" See these hands? They are old. But they are soft. Only good for caressing. "
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" 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. "
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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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Giving
" 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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" Children are wonderful! "
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Children
Wonderful
" 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. "
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Seductive
Sex
" 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.' "
Omar Sharif
Fat
Food
Know
" 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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One Thing
You
Work
" 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. "
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Grow
Tried
Off
" 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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People
Thinking
Moment
" 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. "
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Wisdom
Mind
Strange
" 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. "
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" 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? "
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Women
Me
Man
" 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. "
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Only
Like
See
" Working gets in the way of living. "
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Working
Gets
Living
" There are lots of wonderful old Italian actors. You don't need to take an Egyptian to play an Italian actor. "
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Need
Actor
You
" I like football very much. That's what I like. I play it quite well. "
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Play
Well
Quite
" 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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You
Think
Problem
" 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. "
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Son
Grandchildren
Love
" 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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Tradition
Wise
Film
" Women know when they've got the menopause but men don't quite know. They know it afterwards. "
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Quite
Women
Know
" My mother used to play cards with King Farouk. He believed she brought good luck to him - she was his mascot. "
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Good
Good Luck
King
" 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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Meet
Go