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.
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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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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It’s a mistake to think that once you’re done with school you need never learn anything new.
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I think the quality of sexiness comes from within.
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I’d much rather eat pasta and drink wine than be a size 0.
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Beauty is in you and is reflected in your eyes. It is not material.
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It’s necessary to have an energy that carries you forward. You need the will to live, to have a great curiosity. To look for the best in life, to find new interests.
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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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I’m very susceptible to sex appeal.
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True happiness is impossible without solitude.
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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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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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The Fountain of Youth is in your mind.
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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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I still like me, inside and out. Not in a vain way – I just feel good in my skin.
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I don’t like to go in places where women talk and gossip. The atmosphere I don’t like, even though you can sometimes meet nice people. For me, it’s a waste of time.
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