Omar Sharif

“Women know when they've got the menopause but men don't quite know. They know it afterwards.”

“Children are wonderful!”

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

“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.”

“I'd rather be playing bridge than making a bad movie.”

“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.”

“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 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.'”

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

“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 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 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.”

“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.”

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

“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 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.”

“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.”

“Working gets in the way of living.”