It’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 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 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 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 LORENThe most indespensible ingredient of all good home cooking: love for those you are cooking for.
SOPHIA LORENWhere youthful beauty is unconscious, mature beauty is knowing and sophisticated.
SOPHIA LORENSex 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.
SOPHIA LORENA dog is faithful, a woman never.
SOPHIA LORENThe Fountain of Youth is in your mind.
SOPHIA LORENThe fantasy of a man is the best weapon of a woman.
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 LORENAny 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.
SOPHIA LORENBe 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 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 LORENBeauty is how you feel inside, and it reflects in your eyes. It is not something physical.
SOPHIA LORENYou do not become a star, you are born a star. A star is born with that indefinable extra something.
SOPHIA LORENBelieve me, it is actions that count.
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