Top 100 Sophia Loren Quotes
#1. It is a great advantage for a system of philosophy to be substantially true.
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#2. You do not become a star, you are born a star. A star is born with that indefinable extra something.
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#3. Learn to use your brains as deftly as your powder box, and then maybe you have a powder box and do not need ...
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#4. It's a mistake to think that once you're done with school you need never learn anything new.
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#5. No press conference announcing a last film. I'd just steal away. Best way because, if by chance after two or three years something interesting comes up, I would not - like Sinatra - have to say: 'Well, I've thought it over and decided to come back.'
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#7. Is my mother my friend? I would have to say, first of all she is my Mother, with a capital 'M'; she's something sacred to me. I love her dearly ... yes, she is also a good friend, someone I can talk openly with if I want to.
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#8. It is very important for an actor or actress to look around at everything and everyone and never forget about real life.
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#9. Spaghetti can be eaten most successfully if you inhale it like a vacuum cleaner.
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#11. 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,
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#12. You have to be born a sex symbol. You don't become one. If you're born with it, you'll have it even when you're 100 years old.
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#13. 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.
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#14. Ignorance has its virtues; without it there'd be mighty little conversation.
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#15. If you haven't cried, your eyes can't be beautiful.
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#16. I still like me, inside and out. Not in a vain way - I just feel good in my skin.
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#17. I'm a giraffe. I even walk like a giraffe with a long neck and legs. It's a pretty dumb animal, mind you.
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#18. A mother always thinks twice: for herself and for the child
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#19. I firmly believe we can make our own miracles if we believe strongly enough in ourselves and our mission on earth.
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#20. Be honest about what you can get. To make a sacrifice and to get what you want you need to be very certain. In other words: always think about your objective, have a clear goal and commit to it from the heart.
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#21. 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!
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#22. My mother taught me to walk proud and tall 'as if the world was mine.'
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#23. Beauty is in you and is reflected in your eyes. It is not material.
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#24. True love comes along after adolescence, when we have learned not to cry for nothing.
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#25. The eyes of a woman who never cried can not be beautiful.
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#26. There is no better love potion than a coffee. When a man drinks the coffee made by you he will become forever yours.
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#27. Sex appeal is fifty percent what you've got and fifty percent what people think you've got.
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#28. I still don't know what I want to do when I grow up.
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#29. 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.
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#30. If you are a professional actor who has pride in his work, then the judgment of your peers should be important to you. I treasure each and every award I have ever received - and my Oscar is in a place of honor.
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#32. A woman's dress should be like a barbed-wire fence: serving its purpose without obstructing the view.
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#33. Beauty is no handicap if you don't think about it.
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#34. I eat a lot of salad, a little meat, and some fruit. That's all. But I like sweets.
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#35. [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.
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#36. 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.
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#37. Success, I would find out, is interior. It has to do with self-fulfillment and the joy of living.
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#38. Show business is what I do, not what I am.
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#39. The two big advantages I had at birth were to have been born wise and to have been born in poverty.
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#40. 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.
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#41. Many people think they want things, but they don't really have the strength, the discipline. They are weak. I believe that you get what you want if you want it badly enough.
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#42. As far as beauty is concerned, in order to be confident we must accept that the way we look and feel is our own responsibility.
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#43. I'm sick when I don't work for year or two.
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#44. I have no regrets. regret only makes wrinkles.
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#46. If you can learn to use your mind as well as your powder puff, you will become more truly beautiful.
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#47. For me, it is good to be vulnerable. It makes me nice ... weak sometimes, but in a good way, not a tragic way.
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#48. 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.
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#52. If you haven't cried, your eyes cannot be beautiful
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#53. You must all, somewhere deep in your hearts, believe that you have a special beauty that is like no other and that is so valuable that you must not abandon it. Indeed, you must learn to cherish it.
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#54. Sex appeal is 50% what you've got and 50% what people think you've got.
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#56. 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.
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#57. At the dressing table, every woman has a chance to be an artist, and art, as Aristotle said, completes what nature left unfinished.
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#58. Style must be adapted to the woman and not vice versa. The same can be said of clothes.
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#59. 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.
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#60. I can't bear being seen naked. I'm not exactly a tiny woman. When Sophia Loren is naked, this is a lot of nakedness.
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#61. Once I put myself into a thing, I do my utmost, my very, very best.
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#62. 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.
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#63. You cannot say, because I am from Naples so I like the mixture of drama and comedy all together.
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#64. The facts of life are that a child who has seen war cannot be compared with a child who doesn't know what war is except from television.
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#65. 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.
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#66. 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.
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#67. I was not interested in what I could bring to myself by being an actress, but in what I could bring out of myself.
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#68. I think, in our life I think that when you are an actor, when you are a producer, you have to be very discreet about your personal life, and you have to be closed in, in harmony and in affection and in everything.
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#69. The fantasy of a man is the best weapon of a woman.
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#71. I am lucky. I had a very beautiful mother.
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#72. I'm not Italian, I am Neapolitan! It's another thing!
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#73. The most indespensible ingredient of all good home cooking: love for those you are cooking for.
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#74. Transformation is something I cannot explain - too much analysis might destroy it.
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#75. 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.
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#76. 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.
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#77. Where youthful beauty is unconscious, mature beauty is knowing and sophisticated.
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#79. Getting ahead in a difficult profession requires avid faith in yourself. That is why some people with mediocre talent, but with great inner drive, go so much further than people with vastly superior talent.
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#80. 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.
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#81. Be careful about what you eat because otherwise you get fat! Do you like to be fat? Eat very, very, very little things. Almost starve, but I don't starve, because I eat very much.
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#82. 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.
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#83. I believe that rewards in life are deserved. Every reward is the fruit of discipline, of dedication and of sacrifices. And of stubbornness.
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#85. 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.
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#86. 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.
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#87. I know how to say 'no' in twelve languages. That's enough for a woman.
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#88. I was born wise. Street-wise, people-wise, self-wise. This wisdom was my birthright.
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#89. I'm a very shy person and I never tried to do theater.
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#90. Food makes people happy, it takes you back home, it says so many things that words can't say.
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#91. The first woman was created from the rib of a man. She was not made from his head to top him, nor from his feet to be trampled on by him, but out of his side to be equal to him.
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#92. Nothing makes a woman more beautiful than the belief that she is beautiful.
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#93. Without my mother's ambition, her drive, I doubt that on my own I would have pushed myself out of Pozzuoli and into the frightening world that was faraway Rome.
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#94. My philosophy is that it's better to explore life and make mistakes than to play it safe and not to explore at all.
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#95. Physical exercise makes you more graceful. After some gymnasitics you walk as if the whole street is yours.
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#96. I'm an actress. It's my passion. It's - I've always lived for acting.
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#97. Discipline is the great equalizer. If a young woman is beautiful but has no discipline, she will lose her looks as she grows older. If a plain woman is disciplined she will undoubtedly become more beautiful with time.
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#98. There is no greater love potion than regular coffee, brewed his own. When a man tries it, he was not going anywhere.
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#99. 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.
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