Omar Sharif Quotes & Sayings (Page 2)

“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.”

“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'm very wary about giving advice. I think it's very dangerous to give advice to people, except if you know them very well.”

“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.”

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

“Working gets in the way of living.”

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”