If you don’t have the roots somewhere, it’s very difficult for people to work with you. Because you are a different person from them. They don’t know you, really. They don’t know how you feel.
SOPHIA LORENIf you don’t have the roots somewhere, it’s very difficult for people to work with you. Because you are a different person from them. They don’t know you, really. They don’t know how you feel.
SOPHIA LORENMany people think they want things, but they don’t really have the strength, the discipline. They are weak. I believe that you get what you want if you want it badly enough.
SOPHIA LORENWhen I’m walking along in the street, I always feel that around the corner, there is something wonderful waiting for me. That’s my attitude.
SOPHIA LORENThe most indespensible ingredient of all good home cooking: love for those you are cooking for.
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 LORENI 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.
SOPHIA LORENGetting ahead in a difficult profession requires avid faith in yourself. That is why some people with mediocre talent, but with great inner drive, go so much further than people with vastly superior talent.
SOPHIA LORENMistakes are a part of the dues one pays for a full life.
SOPHIA LORENYou have to be born a sex symbol. You don’t become one. If you’re born with it, you’ll have it even when you’re 100 years old.
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 LORENA woman’s dress should be like a barbed-wire fence: serving its purpose without obstructing the view.
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’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 LORENI believe that rewards in life are deserved. Every reward is the fruit of discipline, of dedication and of sacrifices. And of stubbornness.
SOPHIA LORENBelieve me, it is actions that count.
SOPHIA LORENThe mirror of your health is your skin. If you drink, it shows in your face; if you eat the wrong foods, you have pimples. If you take care of your food and you lead a healthy life, your skin will look wonderful.
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