Be honest about what you can get. To make a sacrifice and to get what you want you need to be very certain. In other words: always think about your objective, have a clear goal and commit to it from the heart.
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.
More Sophia Loren Quotes
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Learn to use your brains as deftly as your powder box, and then maybe you have a powder box and do not need.
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You do not become a star, you are born a star. A star is born with that indefinable extra something.
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Beauty is in you and is reflected in your eyes. It is not material.
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A woman’s dress should be like a barbed-wire fence: serving its purpose without obstructing the view.
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A mother has to think twice, once for herself and once for her child.
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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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Success, I would find out, is interior. It has to do with self-fulfillment and the joy of living.
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Ignorance has its virtues; without it there’d be mighty little conversation.
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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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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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Beauty is no handicap if you don’t think about it.
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I was born wise. Street-wise, people-wise, self-wise. This wisdom was my birthright.
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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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I think the quality of sexiness comes from within. It is something that is in you or it isn’t and it really doesn’t have much to do with breasts or thighs or the pout of your lips.
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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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