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.
SOPHIA LORENMy philosophy is that it’s better to explore life and make mistakes than to play it safe and not to explore at all.
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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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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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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Physical exercise makes you more graceful. After some gymnasitics you walk as if the whole street is yours.
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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 think the quality of sexiness comes from within.
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As far as beauty is concerned, in order to be confident we must accept that the way we look and feel is our own responsibility.
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Mistakes are a part of the dues one pays for a full life.
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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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Ignorance has its virtues; without it there’d be mighty little conversation.
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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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Where youthful beauty is unconscious, mature beauty is knowing and sophisticated.
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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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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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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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