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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.”

Omar Sharif

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I didn't want to be a slave to any passion anymore. I gave up card playing altogether, even bridge and gambling - more or…

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To learn bad dialogue is so difficult and so boring, and to work with a stupid director who tells you to do the wrong…

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

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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…

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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…

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I decided I didn't want to be a slave to any passion any more except for my work, i had too many passions -…

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

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Making love? It's a communion with a woman. The bed is the holy table. There I find passion -- and purification.

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

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

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I've always been extremely lucky in my life.

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