Omar Sharif Quotes

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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.