My philosophy is that it’s better to explore life and make mistakes than to play it safe and not to explore at all.
SOPHIA LORENAnd 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.
More Sophia Loren Quotes
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Good food is a celebration of life.
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If you can learn to use your mind as well as your powder puff, you will become more truly beautiful.
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I eat a lot of salad, a little meat, and some fruit—that’s all. But I like sweets.
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Jealousy is a miserable feeling. It means you aspire to something that you cannot have. Even in love, it is better to leave, better not to waste time.
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A mother has to think twice, once for herself and once for her child.
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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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I know how to say ‘no’ in twelve languages. That’s enough for a woman.
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Mistakes are the price of an interesting life.
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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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True happiness is impossible without solitude.
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Any woman can look her best if she feels good in her skin. It’s not a question of clothes or makeup. It’s how she sparkles.
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The girl who swears no one has ever made love to her has a right to swear.
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Believe me, it is actions that count.
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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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Sex is like washing your face – just something you do because you have to. Sex without love is absolutely ridiculous. Sex follows love, it never precedes it.
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