I 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 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.
More Sophia Loren Quotes
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Jealousy is a miserable feeling. It means you aspire to something that you cannot have. Even in love, it is better to leave, better not to waste time.
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I think the quality of sexiness comes from within.
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You 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.
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I am lucky. I had a very beautiful mother.
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Everything you live through helps to make you the person you are now.
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I firmly believe we can make our own miracles if we believe strongly enough in ourselves and our mission on earth.
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The most indespensible ingredient of all good home cooking: love for those you are cooking for.
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The facts of life are that a child who has seen war cannot be compared with a child who doesn’t know what war is except from television.
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You really have to be satisfied with what you are and accept from life what it still very generously offers you – and notice it, and be glad for it.
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Being 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.
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There is no greater love potion than regular coffee, brewed his own. When a man tries it, he was not going anywhere.
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Transformation is something I cannot explain – too much analysis might destroy it.
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Style must be adapted to the woman and not vice versa. The same can be said of clothes.
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Isn’t it wonderful to be alive? You know, you can forget all about it. Then suddenly you remember, and think of all the things you can do. Here I am. I can walk around. I can talk. I can see things and remember things. I am alive. How wonderful!
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Physical exercise makes you more graceful. After some gymnasitics you walk as if the whole street is yours.
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