I was not interested in what I could bring to myself by being an actress, but in what I could bring out of myself.
SOPHIA LORENWhere youthful beauty is unconscious, mature beauty is knowing and sophisticated.
More Sophia Loren Quotes
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I was born wise. Street-wise, people-wise, self-wise. This wisdom was my birthright.
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I have no regrets. regret only makes wrinkles.
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Everything you live through helps to make you the person you are now.
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Style must be adapted to the woman and not vice versa. The same can be said of clothes.
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Believe me, it is actions that count.
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Beauty is in you and is reflected in your eyes. It is not material.
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I am lucky. I had a very beautiful mother.
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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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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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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 know how to say ‘no’ in twelve languages. That’s enough for a woman.
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Hate is unfulfilled love.
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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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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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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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