“I was a fat little boy when I was 10 years old! My mother, who didn't ...” — Omar Sharif Quote

“I was a fat little boy when I was 10 years old! My mother, who didn't speak any English at all, said, 'I know the only thing is to put him in an English boarding school. The food will be so horrible that he'll lose his weight.'”

“I made French films and other films and a lot of Arabic films, but what I like is English for myself.”

“My mother used to play cards with King Farouk. He believed she brought good luck to him - she was his mascot.”

“You know I went to the Hunt Schools, a boarding school in Princeton, and I've heard so many Rhodes scholars have gone to the Ivys.”

“I was lucky enough to go to boarding school for my high school years, and I had all the resources that I possibly could needed - squash courts and every book you ever would have wanted, every art supply.”

“My father went to boarding school in Sydney when he was 14.”