Where youthful beauty is unconscious, mature beauty is knowing and sophisticated.
SOPHIA LORENWhere youthful beauty is unconscious, mature beauty is knowing and sophisticated.
More Sophia Loren Quotes
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A mother has to think twice, once for herself and once for her child.
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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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You do not become a star, you are born a star. A star is born with that indefinable extra something.
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Sex is like washing your face – just something you do because you have to. Sex without love is absolutely ridiculous. Sex follows love, it never precedes it.
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Luck assists fortune, you need to catch the moment. Otherwise the opportunity fades.
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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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Beauty is no handicap if you don’t think about it.
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There’s no pleasure in working if you don’t do the things you want to do.
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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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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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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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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, perhaps, powder box you will not need. Know smart women men say beautiful – eyes snatched from the crowd and do not forget just charming.
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You can always dream. Life is full of dreams that you can fulfill.
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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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