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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."

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"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."

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A.E. Samaan

"The play was a great success but the audience was a disaster."

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A.E. Samaan

"I come from a TV background, so for me this more like doing a freeing theatre piece because we'd go into a room and do the scene, instead of doing it as a wide shot, medium shot, and close up with only the odd line of dialogue."

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A.E. Samaan

"I'm very resistant to most forms of theater."

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A.E. Samaan

"In the theatre the audience wants to be surprised - but by things that they expect."

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A.E. Samaan

"I think any classical training in the theatre is of enormous value."

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A.E. Samaan

"Whether it was working on theatre sets or stage lighting, I didn't realize most all of the skills I was exposed to were going to come in handy later on when I became a designer."

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A.E. Samaan

"I don't like sitting around in my dressing room very much. It feels a lot like theater."

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A.E. Samaan

"With my background, I came out of the theater."

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A.E. Samaan

"I grew up in Washington, D.C. But also loving the theater."

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A.E. Samaan

"I started out doing theater and a soap in New York and that's... sort of what I got stuck in. I was blessed enough to have long runs, and it's sort of hard sometimes then to get out."

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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."

Wisdom

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

Woman

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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."

Movies

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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."

People

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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."

Thought

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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."

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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."

Gambling

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Omar Sharif
"Working gets in the way of living."

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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."

Muslim

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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."

Life

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