Sahbaz Sharif Quotes

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 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

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

It took me a long, long time to break the chains that's inside me. ~ Manal Al-Sharif

When women break that taboo and they're not afraid to drive that car by herself - that's it. Now she has the guts to speak up for herself and take action. ~ Manal Al-Sharif

Why, when people are leaving their partners because they're having an affair with someone else, do they think it will seem better to pretend there is no one else involved? Do they think it will be less hurtful for their partners to think they just walked out because they couldn't stand them any more and then had the good fortune to meet some tall Omar Sharif-figure with a gentleman's handbag two weeks afterwards while the ex-partner is spending his evenings bursting into tears at the sight of the toothbrush mug? It's like those people who invent a lie as an excuse rather than the truth, even when the truth is better than the lie. ~ Helen Fielding

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

We live in a society either scarred by scarcity or spoiled by luxury. We have no idea how much is enough. We don't know when to quit. ~ Sharif Abdullah

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

A child cannot be free if his/her mother is not free. A husband cannot be free if his wife is not free. The society is nothing if women are nothing. ~ Manal Al-Sharif

Women tell me they are different since 21 May - the day I was arrested - it's a positive change, they believe now. ~ Manal Al-Sharif

How beautiful it is to live in a world with no walls. ~ Manal Al-Sharif

Mubarak was the glue that held this very leaderless and organic and very pluralistic mix of people together. Now that he's gone, there's a lot more debate and division about what happens next, which is healthy. We're essentially still under military dictatorship right now. The military rules the country. It can issue laws by decree. ~ Sharif Abdel Kouddous

It is an amazing contradiction: a society that frowns on a woman going out without a man; that forces you to use separate entrances for universities, banks, restaurants, and mosques; that divides restaurants with partitions so that unrelated males and females cannot sit together; that same society expects you to get into a car with a man who is not your relative, with a man who is a complete stranger, by yourself and have him take you somewhere inside a locked car, alone. ~ Manal Al-Sharif

Omar Sharif and I spent nine months in the desert, day after day for nine months. ~ Peter O'Toole

Mornings are like almost clean slates. I say almost clean because the residue of yesterdays is sometimes stuck on them. ~ Medeia Sharif

How odd it is that we judge a woman by her clothes and the place she eats lunch and the subjects she talks about with her colleagues
on her coffee break, yet we don't judge a man if he doesn't grow his beard or if he works with women or speaks to them. Why do Saudi women allow subjugation to a man and adhere to men's rules and conditions? Why did I? ~ Manal Al-Sharif

Self-evident, Sharif Basha thinks, laying down his pen. So self-evident as to be hardly worth saying. But Anna does not think so. Anna, when she sees a wrong, she cannot rest until it has been put right. Besides, she wants to make him happy. Not just happy at home, but happy altogether. He knows she imagines a day when the shadow within which their life together has been lived will be lifted. And she still has confidence in public opinion; that if only people can be made to see, to understand - then wrongs can be undone, and history set on a different course. ~ Ahdaf Soueif

We have as Americans a right to be here, and we also have a responsibility to build bridges of reconciliation with the families of those who died on 11 September, ~ Sharif El-Gamal

My scars teach me that I am stronger than what caused them. ~ Manal Al-Sharif

I don't watch any films. Billy Elliot is the only film I've seen in the last 25 years. Oh, and ET. Both of which I loved! ~ 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

We won't stop until the first Saudi license is issued to a woman. ~ Manal Al-Sharif

Suicide is an extreme vote of no confidence in a society that doesn't work. ~ Sharif Abdullah

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

Sharif gave instructions to his staff regarding snacks he wanted served to all of us - Sharif often asked for specific food items during meetings, as if it helped him concentrate his mind. ~ Husain Haqqani

I've always been extremely lucky in my life. ~ Omar Sharif

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

Gradually, I realized that the ideas I had embraced and defended blindly all my life represented a singular, and highly radical, point of view. I began to question everything. ~ Manal Al-Sharif

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

In a lot of ways, I envy someone like Omar Sharif who lived in a hotel for decades. ~ Viggo Mortensen

The axiomatic thing about Saudi society is that while there are a seemingly infinite number of rules, it is also possible for people in authority to go outside those rules, and, if not break them, at least bend them quite a bit. ~ Manal Al-Sharif

I hated the culture [working in the bank], I hated the work. I very quickly realized that this wasn't what I wanted to do. So, after two years, I took some writing courses - I always loved to write - and I figured the only way I was going to get paid to write was in journalism. ~ Sharif Abdel Kouddous

Extremism frequently turns its champions into angry people, driven by conflicting desires. At first, I pitied my less enlightened parents and siblings. Then I felt superior to them, poor sinners that they were. Then I lost patience with their unwillingness
to see the one true path and resorted to threats, intimidation, and yelling. At night, I was tormented by thoughts of what would happen to all us of when we reached our graves. ~ Manal Al-Sharif

To be alive, Professor Sharif, means not being completely consistent. ~ David Lagercrantz

It matters what you call a thing. ~ Solmaz Sharif

I really wasn't very involved politically with anything up until that point. Then I started reading about the second Palestinian Intifada, and I spoke to friends in activist and journalism circles. Then, somehow by complete luck, I ended up at Democracy Now. ~ Sharif Abdel Kouddous

his eyes SENSITIVE when he passes advice to me, like I'm his SEQUEL, like we're all a SERIAL caught on Iranian satellite TV. When you tell someone of, he calls it SERVICING. When I stand on his feet, I call it SHADOWING. ~ Solmaz Sharif

Women want to drive and they are taking actual steps towards that. ~ Manal Al-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

Pain will be his guru. ~ Sharif Khan

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

Success is living your essence." ~ Sharif Khan ~ Sharif Khan

Winnie glowered at the young man. "Mr. Sharif, you don't understand the purpose of the stacks. You don't go into the stacks expecting the precise answer to your burning-question-of-the-moment. It doesn't work that way. In all the thousands of times that I've gone hunting in the stacks, I've seldom found exactly what I was looking for. You know what I did find? I found the books on close-by topics. I found answers to questions that I had never thought to ask. Those answers took me in new directions and were almost always more valuable than whatever I originally had in mind. ~ Verner Vinge

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

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. ~ Omar Sharif