I was not interested in what I could bring to myself by being an actress, but in what I could bring out of myself.
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.
More Sophia Loren Quotes
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Everything you live through helps to make you the person you are now.
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Believe me, it is actions that count.
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You must all, somewhere deep in your hearts, believe that you have a special beauty that is like no other and that is so valuable that you must not abandon it. Indeed, you must learn to cherish it.
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A woman’s dress should be like a barbed-wire fence: serving its purpose without obstructing the view.
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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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Until you lose your mother you don’t know what it is.
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Many 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.
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Learn to use your brains as deftly as your powder box, and then maybe you have a powder box and do not need.
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If you haven’t cried, your eyes can’t be beautiful.
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The 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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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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The eyes of a woman who never cried can not be beautiful.
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The Fountain of Youth is in your mind.
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You do not become a star, you are born a star. A star is born with that indefinable extra something.
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The most indespensible ingredient of all good home cooking: love for those you are cooking for.
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