I believe that rewards in life are deserved. Every reward is the fruit of discipline, of dedication and of sacrifices. And of stubbornness.
SOPHIA LORENI’ve never tried to block out the memories of the past, even though some are painful. I don’t understand people who hide from their past. Everything you live through helps to make you the person you are now.
More Sophia Loren Quotes
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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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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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I’m very susceptible to sex appeal.
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The right hairstyle can make a plain woman beautiful and a beautiful woman unforgettable.
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You really have to be satisfied with what you are and accept from life what it still very generously offers you – and notice it, and be glad for it.
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I don’t like to run. I don’t like to jump up and down. Being a big girl and having a bosom, I injure myself! It upsets me, I have to hold my two things. I just can’t jog, there’s something in the way.
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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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Until you lose your mother you don’t know what it is.
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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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Sex appeal is 50% what you’ve got and 50% what people think you’ve got.
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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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Mistakes are a part of the dues one pays for a full life.
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I still like me, inside and out. Not in a vain way – I just feel good in my skin.
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Transformation is something I cannot explain – too much analysis might destroy it.
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There’s no pleasure in working if you don’t do the things you want to do.
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I don’t like to go in places where women talk and gossip. The atmosphere I don’t like, even though you can sometimes meet nice people. For me, it’s a waste of time.
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Everything you live through helps to make you the person you are now.
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Success, I would find out, is interior. It has to do with self-fulfillment and the joy of living.
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Sometimes when you involve yourself in so many things, you can’t do any of them well – and I like to do everything perfectly.
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I have no regrets. regret only makes wrinkles.
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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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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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If you haven’t cried, your eyes can’t be beautiful.
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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.
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Mistakes are the price of an interesting life.
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I was born wise. Street-wise, people-wise, self-wise. This wisdom was my birthright.
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