I was born wise. Street-wise, people-wise, self-wise. This wisdom was my birthright.
SOPHIA LORENI was born wise. Street-wise, people-wise, self-wise. This wisdom was my birthright.
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 LORENHate is unfulfilled love.
SOPHIA LORENThere 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.
SOPHIA LORENBeauty is no handicap if you don’t think about it.
SOPHIA LORENYou have to enjoy life. Always be surrounded by people that you like, people who have a nice conversation. There are so many positive things to think about.
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.
SOPHIA LORENI still like me, inside and out. Not in a vain way – I just feel good in my skin.
SOPHIA LORENI’ve never tried to block out the memories of the past, even though some are painful. I don’t understand people who hide from their past. Everything you live through helps to make you the person you are now.
SOPHIA LORENLearn 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.
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 LORENMy philosophy is that it’s better to explore life and make mistakes than to play it safe and not to explore at all.
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 LORENLearn to use your brains as deftly as your powder box, and then maybe you have a powder box and do not need.
SOPHIA LORENThe fantasy of a man is the best weapon of a woman.
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 LOREN