The most indespensible ingredient of all good home cooking: love for those you are cooking for.
SOPHIA LORENThe most indespensible ingredient of all good home cooking: love for those you are cooking for.
SOPHIA LORENNothing makes a woman more beautiful than the belief that she is beautiful.
SOPHIA LORENI still don’t know what I want to do when I grow up.
SOPHIA LORENIt’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.
SOPHIA LORENI was not interested in what I could bring to myself by being an actress, but in what I could bring out of myself.
SOPHIA LORENWhere youthful beauty is unconscious, mature beauty is knowing and sophisticated.
SOPHIA LORENThe right hairstyle can make a plain woman beautiful and a beautiful woman unforgettable.
SOPHIA LORENThe girl who swears no one has ever made love to her has a right to swear.
SOPHIA LORENI 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.
SOPHIA LORENI’m a giraffe. I even walk like a giraffe with a long neck and legs. It’s a pretty dumb animal, mind you.
SOPHIA LORENWhen 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.
SOPHIA LORENIf you haven’t cried, your eyes can’t be beautiful.
SOPHIA LORENThough 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.
SOPHIA LORENCooking is an act of love, a gift, a way of sharing with others the little secrets — ‘piccoli segreti’ — that are simmering on the burners.
SOPHIA LORENI was born wise. Street-wise, people-wise, self-wise. This wisdom was my birthright.
SOPHIA LORENThe Fountain of Youth is in your mind.
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