Omar Sharif Quotes
Sad Quotes by Omar Sharif

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.
- Omar Sharif

He read his mind.
He's a strange sort of man, isn't he? It's not just
the advice and the wisdom that he has.
- Omar Sharif

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.
- Omar Sharif

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.
- Omar Sharif

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.
- Omar Sharif

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.
- Omar Sharif

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

Women know when they've got the menopause but men don't quite know.
They know it afterwards.
- Omar Sharif

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.
- Omar Sharif

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.
- Omar Sharif

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.
- Omar Sharif

I can't say I gave up totally my passion for women but almost.
- Omar Sharif

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

Working gets in the way of living.
- Omar Sharif

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.
- Omar Sharif

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.
- Omar Sharif

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.
- Omar Sharif

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.
- Omar Sharif

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

Nearly all men can stand adversity,
but if you want to test a man's character, give him power.
- Abraham Lincoln

I look to a day when people will not be judged
by the color of their skin,
but by the content of their character.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.

I have a dream that my four little children will one day
live in a nation where they will
not be judged by the color of their skin,
but by the content of their character.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.

Fear is the path to the dark side.
Fear leads to anger.
Anger leads to hate.
Hate leads to suffering.
- Yoda, character in Star Wars movie

In critical moments men sometimes see
exactly what they wish to see.
- the character Spock of the television series Star Trek

Be more concerned with your character than your reputation,
because your character is what you really are,
while your reputation is merely what others think you are.
- John Wooden

No change of circumstances can repair a defect of character.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet.
Only through experiences of trial and suffering
can the soul be strengthened,
vision cleared, ambition inspired and success achieved.
- Helen Keller

Our character is what we do when we think no one is looking.
- H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

Random chance seems to have operated in our favor ...
there was no deity involved.
- Spock character in the Star Trek television series

We can't control the impressions others form about us,
and the effort to do so only debases our character.
- Epictetus

Be more concerned with your character than your reputation.
- John Wooden

Interesting.
You Earth people glorify organized violence for 40 centuries,
but you imprison those who employ it privately.
- the character Spock in the television series Star Trek

Only a man's character is the real criterion of worth.
- Eleanor Roosevelt

The final forming of a person's character
lies in their own hands.
- Anne Frank

We censor our actions, but
our dreams reveal our true character.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Character is higher than intellect.
A great soul will be strong to live as well as think.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Judge your natural character
by what you do in your dreams.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

You can easily judge the character of others
by how they treat those who can
do nothing for them or to them.
- Malcolm S. Forbes

Never put passion before principle.
Even if win, you lose.
- Miyagi: character in the movie Karate Kid 2

There's a difference between knowing the path and walking the path.
- the character Morpheus in the movie The Matrix

People seem not to see that
their opinion of the world
is also a confession of character.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Weakness of attitude becomes weakness of character.
- Albert Einstein

Society censors our actions,
but our dreams reveal our true character.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Watch your thoughts, for they become words.
Watch your words, for they become actions.
Watch your actions, for they become habits.
Watch your habits, for they become character.
Watch your character, for it becomes your destiny.
- Anonymous

The movie character Forrest Gump describing life
as being "like a box of chocolates,"
is such a positive upbeat way of
characterizing the uncertainty of life.
I have no idea what life will give me next,
but whatever it is, it will be sweet.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Our actions are constrained by fear of reprisal,
but our dreams reveal our true character.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Things are only impossible until they're not.
- Jean-Luc Picard, character in STAR TREK: The Next Generation

Imagine for yourself a character,
a model personality whose example you determine to follow,
in private as well as in public.
- Epictetus

Society is a masked ball,
where every one hides his real character,
and reveals it by hiding.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Parents can only give good advice or put them on the right paths,
but the final forming of a person's character lies in their own hands.
- Anne Frank

People do not seem to realize that
their opinion of the world
is also a confession of character.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

You cannot build character and courage by
taking away a man's initiative and independence.
- Abraham Lincoln

Dreams are the touchstones of our character.
- Henry David Thoreau

You get what you settle for.
- the character Louise in the movie Thelma and Louise

You must unlearn what you have learned.
- the character Yoda in the movie Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back

The willow which bends to the tempest,
often escapes better than the oak which resists it;
and so in great calamities,
it sometimes happens that light and frivolous spirits
recover their elasticity and presence of mind sooner
than those of a loftier character.
- Albert Schweitzer

People grow through experience
if they meet life honestly and courageously.
This is how character is built.
- Eleanor Roosevelt

Better learn balance. Balance is key.
Balance good, karate good. Everything good.
Balance bad, better pack up, go home. Understand?
- Miyagi: character in the movie Karate Kid

Where there is no emotion,
there is no motive for violence.
- the character Spock in the Star Trek television series

Better learn balance. Balance is key.
- Miyagi: character in the movie Karate Kid

Grit ruins clam chowder,
but enhances your character.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Humans do have an amazing capacity
for believing what they choose,
and excluding that which is painful.
- Spock (character in Star Trek television series)

How true Daddy's words were when he said:
all children must look after their own upbringing.
Parents can only give good advice
or put them on the right paths,
but the final forming of a person's character
lies in their own hands.
- Anne Frank

Change is the essential process of all existence.
- Spock character in Star Trek

You remember lesson about balance?
Lesson not just karate only. Lesson for whole life.
Whole life have a balance. Everything be better. Understand?
- Miyagi: character in the movie Karate Kid

What you want is irrelevant,
what you have chosen is at hand.
- Spock character in Star Trek VI movie

Humans make illogical decisions.
- Spock (character in Star Trek movies and TV shows)

To deny the facts would be illogical.
- the character Spock in the television series Star Trek

The real ornament of woman is her character, her purity.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi

Love, hope, fear, faith - these make humanity;
These are its sign and note and character.
- Robert Browning Hamilton

The difficulty with marriage is that we fall in love with a personality,
but must live with a character.
- Peter De Vries