I’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.
SOPHIA LORENThe Fountain of Youth is in your mind.
More Sophia Loren Quotes
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Beauty is in you and is reflected in your eyes. It is not material.
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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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I am lucky. I had a very beautiful mother.
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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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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.
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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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There is no greater love potion than regular coffee, brewed his own. When a man tries it, he was not going anywhere.
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Everything you live through helps to make you the person you are now.
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I still don’t know what I want to do when I grow up.
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I’m very susceptible to sex appeal.
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Mistakes are a part of the dues one pays for a full life.
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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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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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The two big advantages I had at birth were to have been born wise and to have been born in poverty.
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Be honest about what you can get. To make a sacrifice and to get what you want you need to be very certain. In other words: always think about your objective, have a clear goal and commit to it from the heart.
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Success, I would find out, is interior. It has to do with self-fulfillment and the joy of living.
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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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Nothing makes a woman more beautiful than the belief that she is beautiful.
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Mistakes are the price of an interesting life.
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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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The Fountain of Youth is in your mind.
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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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Being beautiful can never hurt, but you have to have more. You have to sparkle, you have to be fun, you have to make your brain work if you have one.
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Physical exercise makes you more graceful. After some gymnasitics you walk as if the whole street is yours.
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Until you lose your mother you don’t know what it is.
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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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