Believe me, it is actions that count.
SOPHIA LORENThough 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.
More Sophia Loren Quotes
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And as I walk round the park I always think, ‘Maybe round the corner I am going to find something beautiful.’ I always think positively. It is very rare that you find me in a mood that is sad or melancholic.
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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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My philosophy is that it’s better to explore life and make mistakes than to play it safe and not to explore at all.
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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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Transformation is something I cannot explain – too much analysis might destroy it.
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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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Where youthful beauty is unconscious, mature beauty is knowing and sophisticated.
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The fantasy of a man is the best weapon of a woman.
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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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You do not become a star, you are born a star. A star is born with that indefinable extra something.
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If you can learn to use your mind as well as your powder puff, you will become more truly beautiful.
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Until you lose your mother you don’t know what it is.
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Beauty is in you and is reflected in your eyes. It is not material.
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The most indespensible ingredient of all good home cooking: love for those you are cooking for.
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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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