Until you lose your mother you don’t know what it is.
SOPHIA LORENYou do not become a star, you are born a star. A star is born with that indefinable extra something.
More Sophia Loren Quotes
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Sex appeal is 50% what you’ve got and 50% what people think you’ve got.
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Without 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.
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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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I have no regrets. regret only makes wrinkles.
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The girl who swears no one has ever made love to her has a right to swear.
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Any 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.
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True happiness is impossible without solitude.
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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 know how to say ‘no’ in twelve languages. That’s enough for a woman.
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And 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.
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I eat a lot of salad, a little meat, and some fruit—that’s all. But I like sweets.
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There 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.
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I am lucky. I had a very beautiful mother.
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Believe me, it is actions that count.
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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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