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!
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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I know how to say ‘no’ in twelve languages. That’s enough for a woman.
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After all these years, I am still involved in the process of self-discovery. It’s better to explore life and make mistakes than to play it safe. Mistakes are part of the dues one pays for a full life.
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I’m a giraffe. I even walk like a giraffe with a long neck and legs. It’s a pretty dumb animal, mind you.
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Nothing makes a woman more beautiful than the belief that she is beautiful.
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I was born wise. Street-wise, people-wise, self-wise. This wisdom was my birthright.
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Until you lose your mother you don’t know what it is.
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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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Beauty is how you feel inside, and it reflects in your eyes. It is not something physical.
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If you haven’t cried, your eyes can’t be beautiful.
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Mistakes are the price of an interesting life.
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I think the quality of sexiness comes from within.
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I believe that rewards in life are deserved. Every reward is the fruit of discipline, of dedication and of sacrifices. And of stubbornness.
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When 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.
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You 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.
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Good food is a celebration of life.
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