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.
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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I eat a lot of salad, a little meat, and some fruit—that’s all. But I like sweets.
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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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I was so skinny, they gave me the nickname stechetto – the stick. I was tall, thin, ugly and dark like an Arab girl. I looked strange. All eyes. No flesh on my bones.
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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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A dog is faithful, a woman never.
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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 still don’t know what I want to do when I grow up.
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I firmly believe we can make our own miracles if we believe strongly enough in ourselves and our mission on earth.
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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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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.
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Believe me, it is actions that count.
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True happiness is impossible without solitude.
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The girl who swears no one has ever made love to her has a right to swear.
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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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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.
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