Nothing makes a woman more beautiful than the belief that she is beautiful.
SOPHIA LORENWithout 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.
More Sophia Loren Quotes
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Getting ahead in a difficult profession requires avid faith in yourself. That is why some people with mediocre talent, but with great inner drive, go so much further than people with vastly superior talent.
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I don’t like to go in places where women talk and gossip. The atmosphere I don’t like, even though you can sometimes meet nice people. For me, it’s a waste of time.
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The facts of life are that a child who has seen war cannot be compared with a child who doesn’t know what war is except from television.
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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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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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Any woman can look her best if she feels good in her skin. It’s not a question of clothes or makeup. It’s how she sparkles.
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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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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 was born wise. Street-wise, people-wise, self-wise. This wisdom was my birthright.
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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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The mirror of your health is your skin. If you drink, it shows in your face; if you eat the wrong foods, you have pimples. If you take care of your food and you lead a healthy life, your skin will look wonderful.
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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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Mistakes are the price of an interesting life.
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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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Sex appeal is 50% what you’ve got and 50% what people think you’ve got.
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