I still don’t know what I want to do when I grow up.
SOPHIA LORENI still don’t know what I want to do when I grow up.
SOPHIA LORENYou can always dream. Life is full of dreams that you can fulfill.
SOPHIA LORENI don’t like to go in places where women talk and gossip. The atmosphere I don’t like, even though you can sometimes meet nice people. For me, it’s a waste of time.
SOPHIA LORENMistakes are a part of the dues one pays for a full life.
SOPHIA LORENBeing 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.
SOPHIA LORENI’d much rather eat pasta and drink wine than be a size 0.
SOPHIA LORENBelieve me, it is actions that count.
SOPHIA LORENUntil you lose your mother you don’t know what it is.
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 LORENWhere youthful beauty is unconscious, mature beauty is knowing and sophisticated.
SOPHIA LORENWithout 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.
SOPHIA LORENThere is no greater love potion than regular coffee, brewed his own. When a man tries it, he was not going anywhere.
SOPHIA LORENI 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 LORENYou do not become a star, you are born a star. A star is born with that indefinable extra something.
SOPHIA LORENSometimes when you involve yourself in so many things, you can’t do any of them well – and I like to do everything perfectly.
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.
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