I think the quality of sexiness comes from within.
SOPHIA LORENAfter 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.
More Sophia Loren Quotes
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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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There is a fountain of youth: it is your mind, your talents, the creativity you bring to your life and the lives of the people you love. When you learn to tap this source, you will truly have defeated age.
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Believe me, it is actions that count.
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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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There’s no pleasure in working if you don’t do the things you want to do.
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Ignorance has its virtues; without it there’d be mighty little conversation.
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The mirror of your health is your skin. If you drink, it shows in your face; if you eat the wrong foods, you have pimples. If you take care of your food and you lead a healthy life, your skin will look wonderful.
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I firmly believe we can make our own miracles if we believe strongly enough in ourselves and our mission on earth.
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Beauty is no handicap if you don’t think about it.
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Where youthful beauty is unconscious, mature beauty is knowing and sophisticated.
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Beauty is how you feel inside, and it reflects in your eyes. It is not something physical.
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You must all, somewhere deep in your hearts, believe that you have a special beauty that is like no other and that is so valuable that you must not abandon it. Indeed, you must learn to cherish it.
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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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When you are a mother, you are never really alone in your thoughts. A mother always has to think twice, once for herself and once for her child.
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I still don’t know what I want to do when I grow up.
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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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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 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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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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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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Everything you live through helps to make you the person you are now.
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A mother has to think twice, once for herself and once for her child.
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Good food is a celebration of life.
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Until you lose your mother you don’t know what it is.
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I know how to say ‘no’ in twelve languages. That’s enough for a woman.
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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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