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" 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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" 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

Know

Think

Giving

" 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. "

" 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

Think

Boy

" 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. "

Omar Sharif

Bridge

Passion

" See these hands? They are old. But they are soft. Only good for caressing. "

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

Omar Sharif

Almost

Passion

" 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. "

Omar Sharif

Respect

Personality

" 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 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.' "

" My mother used to play cards with King Farouk. He believed she brought good luck to him - she was his mascot. "

" Children are wonderful! "

Omar Sharif

Children

Wonderful

" 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? "

Omar Sharif

Women

Man

" I like football very much. That's what I like. I play it quite well. "

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

" 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 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 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

Only

See

" 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 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. "

" 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. "

" 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'd rather be playing bridge than making a bad movie. "

" Working gets in the way of living. "

" 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. "

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

" I made French films and other films and a lot of Arabic films, but what I like is English for myself. "

Omar Sharif

Myself

Made

" 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

Bad

Meet