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 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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When I’m walking along in the street, I always feel that around the corner, there is something wonderful waiting for me. That’s my attitude.
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Nothing makes a woman more beautiful than the belief that she is beautiful.
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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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Learn to use your brains as deftly as your powder box, and then, perhaps, powder box you will not need. Know smart women men say beautiful – eyes snatched from the crowd and do not forget just charming.
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You can always dream. Life is full of dreams that you can fulfill.
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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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If you haven’t cried, your eyes can’t be beautiful.
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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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Transformation is something I cannot explain – too much analysis might destroy it.
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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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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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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 am lucky. I had a very beautiful mother.
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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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You do not become a star, you are born a star. A star is born with that indefinable extra something.
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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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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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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 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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Hate is unfulfilled love.
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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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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’d much rather eat pasta and drink wine than be a size 0.
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A mother has to think twice, once for herself and once for her child.
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The eyes of a woman who never cried can not be beautiful.
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A dog is faithful, a woman never.
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