Beauty is in you and is reflected in your eyes. It is not material.
SOPHIA LORENBelieve me, it is actions that count.
More Sophia Loren Quotes
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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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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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I’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.
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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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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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It’s a mistake to think that once you’re done with school you need never learn anything new.
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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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Transformation is something I cannot explain – too much analysis might destroy it.
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The Fountain of Youth is in your mind.
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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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True happiness is impossible without solitude.
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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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I am lucky. I had a very beautiful mother.
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I still don’t know what I want to do when I grow up.
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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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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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I still like me, inside and out. Not in a vain way – I just feel good in my skin.
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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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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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You can always dream. Life is full of dreams that you can fulfill.
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If you don’t have the roots somewhere, it’s very difficult for people to work with you. Because you are a different person from them. They don’t know you, really. They don’t know how you feel.
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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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Believe me, it is actions that count.
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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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Physical exercise makes you more graceful. After some gymnasitics you walk as if the whole street is yours.
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I’m very susceptible to sex appeal.
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