Sophia Loren Quotes

Being beautiful can never hurt, but you have to have more. You have to sparkle, you have to be fun, you have to make your brain work if you have one.

Where youthful beauty is unconscious, mature beauty is knowing and sophisticated.

I was blessed with a sense of my own destiny. I have never sold myself short. I have never judged myself by other people's standards. I have always expected a great deal of myself, and if I fail, I fail myself. So failure or reversal does not bring out resentment in me because I cannot blame others for any misfortune that befalls me.

I was born wise. Street-wise, people-wise, self-wise. This wisdom was my birthright.

If you haven't cried, your eyes cannot be beautiful

I eat a lot of salad, a little meat, and some fruit. That's all. But I like sweets.

Though poor and anxious to work, I refused to alter anything. They would take me as I looked or not at all ... Eventually I profited by looking like myself and not like what was fashionable years ago with certain film technicians in Rome.

It's necessary to have an energy that carries you forward. You need the will to live, to have a great curiosity. To look for the best in life, to find new interests.

The two big advantages I had at birth were to have been born wise and to have been born in poverty.

The eyes of a woman who never cried can not be beautiful.

I am lucky. I had a very beautiful mother.

My philosophy is that it's better to explore life and make mistakes than to play it safe and not to explore at all.

Transformation is something I cannot explain - too much analysis might destroy it.

It is very important for an actor or actress to look around at everything and everyone and never forget about real life.

I think the quality of sexiness comes from within. It is something that is in you or it isn't and it really doesn't have much to do with breasts or thighs or the pout of your lips.

Luck assists fortune, you need to catch the moment. Otherwise the opportunity fades.

It's a mistake to think that once you're done with school you need never learn anything new.

Beauty is how you feel inside ...

If you can learn to use your mind as well as your powder puff, you will become more truly beautiful.

I firmly believe we can make our own miracles if we believe strongly enough in ourselves and our mission on earth.

I'm very susceptible to sex appeal.

Jealousy is a miserable feeling. It means you aspire to something that you cannot have. Even in love, it is better to leave, better not to waste time.

Good food is a celebration of life.

The fantasy of a man is the best weapon of a woman.

I'm a very shy person and I never tried to do theater.

I always try to have a vacation.

Sex is like washing your face - just something you do because you have to. Sex without love is absolutely ridiculous. Sex follows love, it never precedes it.

When you are a mother, you are never really alone in your thoughts. You are connected to your child and to all those who touch your lives. A mother always has to think twice, once for herself and once for her child.

I'm sick when I don't work for year or two.

I'm an actress. It's my passion.

Beauty is no handicap if you don't think about it.

After all these years, I am still involved in the process of self-discovery. It's better to explore life and make mistakes than to play it safe. Mistakes are part of the dues one pays for a full life.

[William] Klein has eyes like a knife. He is ruthless and outrageous but never mean - he is tender and funny and violent - and, I'm sure, really in love with our crazy Rome.

There is no better love potion than a coffee. When a man drinks the coffee made by you he will become forever yours.

I exist only because inside of me and above all else I am only and above all a Neapolitan. Naples exists inside of me, and always will. Fortunately for me there is this treasure that I have inside of me and, when I need it, then I pull it out.

I was not intrigued with the accouterments of success and fame, the furs, jewels, expensive automobiles and mansions ... I can assure you that these things were not on my mind when I sat spellbound in that Pozzuoli movie house. It was what these performers on the screen were doing, not what they received for doing it.

As time passed there was no more buying food, no money, no supplies. On some days, we wouldn't even have a crumb to eat. There's a vivid scene in Nanni Loy's The Four Days of Naples, a movie made after the war about the uprising of the Neapolitans against the occupying Germans, in which one of the young characters sinks his teeth into a loaf of bread so voraciously, so desperately, I can still identify with him. In those four famous days in late September, when Naples rose up against the Germans - even before the Allies arrived, it was the climax of a terrible period of deprivation and marked the beginning of the end of the war in Italy.

When you find yourself a mom, you will be by no means seriously by itself with your ideas. A mother usually should think twice, once for herself and once for her boy or girl.

Cooking is an act of love, a gift, a way of sharing with others the little secrets
'piccoli segreti'
that are simmering on the burners.

Learn to use your brains as deftly as your powder box, and then maybe you have a powder box and do not need ...

I hated my father all my life but in his final days I forgave him for all the suffering he caused us. As you grow older, marry, and have children of you own, you learn and forget. I do not forget easily, but I do forgive.

A dog is faithful, a woman never.

I still don't know what I want to do when I grow up.

Mistakes are the price of an interesting life.

Everything you see I owe to spaghetti.

I have no regrets. regret only makes wrinkles.

You have to believe in marriage and you have to believe in a relationship between two people. If you really think in your life that you have found the right person, you have to stick to it, even though there are ups and downs. If you really believe in your union, you have to nourish it and work for it, then you can really spend your life together forever.

Food makes people happy, it takes you back home, it says so many things that words can't say.

You have to enjoy life. Always be surrounded by people that you like, people who have a nice conversation. There are so many positive things to think about.

Isn't it wonderful to be alive? You know, you can forget all about it. Then suddenly you remember, and think of all the things you can do. Here I am. I can walk around. I can talk. I can see things and remember things. I am alive. How wonderful!

Physical exercise makes you more graceful. After some gymnasitics you walk as if the whole street is yours.

For me, it is good to be vulnerable. It makes me nice ... weak sometimes, but in a good way, not a tragic way.

I do not know if I really am a big star. And in fact that is not the most important thing for me. What counts in life is to bring about more of your own dreams. In such a way that your life becomes like a fairy tale. This is what has happened to me, it is just like that.

Believe me, it is actions that count.

Beauty is in you and is reflected in your eyes. It is not material.

I was so skinny, they gave me the nickname stechetto - the stick. I was tall, thin, ugly and dark like an Arab girl. I looked strange. All eyes. No flesh on my bones.

I know how to say 'no' in twelve languages. That's enough for a woman.

Sex appeal is 50% what you've got and 50% what people think you've got.

Success, I would find out, is interior. It has to do with self-fulfillment and the joy of living.

Any woman can look her best if she feels good in her skin. It's not a question of clothes or makeup. It's how she sparkles.

When I was a child, fear was common to my life - fear of having nothing to eat, fear of the other children taunting me at school because I was illegitimate, and particularly fear of the big bombers appearing overhead and dropping their lethal bursts from the sky.

Ignorance has its virtues; without it there'd be mighty little conversation.

It [winning Oscar] is the most important event in the career of an actor, an extraordinary moment, beautiful. Some people live their whole life just to win an Oscar.

Sex appeal is fifty percent what you've got and fifty percent what people think you've got.

I'm not Italian, I am Neapolitan! It's another thing!

I'm an actress. It's my passion. It's - I've always lived for acting.

The most indespensible ingredient of all good home cooking: love for those you are cooking for.

At the dressing table, every woman has a chance to be an artist, and art, as Aristotle said, completes what nature left unfinished.

You do not become a star, you are born a star. A star is born with that indefinable extra something.

I still like me, inside and out. Not in a vain way - I just feel good in my skin.

every opportunity is a big opportunity,

And as I walk round the park I always think, 'Maybe round the corner I am going to find something beautiful.' I always think positively. It is very rare that you find me in a mood that is sad or melancholic,

There is a fountain of youth: it is your mind, your talents, the creativity you bring to your life and the lives of people you love. When you learn to tap this source, you will truly have defeated age.