66 Quotes by Omar Sharif

People don't have to be beautiful any more. We don't have any Audrey Hepburns, Rita Hayworths or Ava Gardeners. When you look at Al Pacino and the greatest actors in Hollywood they're all common-looking.

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

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

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

Working gets in the way of living.

To learn bad dialogue is so difficult and so boring, and to work with a stupid director who tells you to do the wrong thing, etcetera, it’s just unbearable.

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.

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.

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