I am lucky. I had a very beautiful mother.
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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You must all, somewhere deep in your hearts, believe that you have a special beauty that is like no other and that is so valuable that you must not abandon it. Indeed, you must learn to cherish it.
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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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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 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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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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There is a fountain of youth: it is your mind, your talents, the creativity you bring to your life and the lives of the people you love. When you learn to tap this source, you will truly have defeated age.
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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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The Fountain of Youth is in your mind.
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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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Transformation is something I cannot explain – too much analysis might destroy it.
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There is no better love potion than a coffee. When a man drinks the coffee made by you he will become forever yours.
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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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Hate is unfulfilled love.
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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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Nothing makes a woman more beautiful than the belief that she is beautiful.
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