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 Copy Share Image
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… — Omar Sharif Copy Share Image
I didn't want to be a slave to any passion anymore. I gave up card playing altogether, even bridge and gambling - more or… — Omar Sharif Copy Share Image
To learn bad dialogue is so difficult and so boring, and to work with a stupid director who tells you to do the wrong… — Omar Sharif Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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… — Omar Sharif Copy Share Image
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… — Omar Sharif Copy Share Image
I decided I didn't want to be a slave to any passion any more except for my work, i had too many passions -… — Omar Sharif Copy Share Image
Making love? It's a communion with a woman. The bed is the holy table. There I find passion -- and purification. — Omar Sharif Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
I made French films and other films and a lot of Arabic films, but what I like is English for myself. — Omar Sharif Copy Share Image
