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.

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

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 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.

Making love? It's a communion with a woman. The bed is the holy table. There I find passion -- and purification.

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.

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.