I don’t like to run. I don’t like to jump up and down. Being a big girl and having a bosom, I injure myself! It upsets me, I have to hold my two things. I just can’t jog, there’s something in the way.
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.
More Sophia Loren Quotes
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I have no regrets. regret only makes wrinkles.
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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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I 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.
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The first woman was created from the rib of a man. She was not made from his head to top him, nor from his feet to be trampled on by him, but out of his side to be equal to him.
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Cooking is an act of love, a gift, a way of sharing with others the little secrets — ‘piccoli segreti’ — that are simmering on the burners.
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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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I have never judged myself by other people’s standards. I have always expected a great deal of myself, and if I fail, I fail myself.
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I still like me, inside and out. Not in a vain way – I just feel good in my skin.
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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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You do not become a star, you are born a star. A star is born with that indefinable extra something.
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I still don’t know what I want to do when I grow up.
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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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Though poor and anxious to work, I refused to alter anything. They would take me as I looked or not at all. Eventually I profited by looking like myself and not like what was fashionable years ago with certain film technicians in Rome.
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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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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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