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.
SOPHIA LORENI 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.
More Sophia Loren Quotes
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Mistakes are a part of the dues one pays for a full life.
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Until you lose your mother you don’t know what it is.
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I’d much rather eat pasta and drink wine than be a size 0.
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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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I think the quality of sexiness comes from within.
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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 was born wise. Street-wise, people-wise, self-wise. This wisdom was my birthright.
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Believe me, it is actions that count.
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Luck assists fortune, you need to catch the moment. Otherwise the opportunity fades.
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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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Where youthful beauty is unconscious, mature beauty is knowing and sophisticated.
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The fantasy of a man is the best weapon of a woman.
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Ignorance has its virtues; without it there’d be mighty little conversation.
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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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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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