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.
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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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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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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Hate is unfulfilled love.
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Good food is a celebration of life.
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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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I’d much rather eat pasta and drink wine than be a size 0.
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You can always dream. Life is full of dreams that you can fulfill.
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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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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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The fantasy of a man is the best weapon of a woman.
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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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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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The girl who swears no one has ever made love to her has a right to swear.
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Where youthful beauty is unconscious, mature beauty is knowing and sophisticated.
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Sex appeal is 50% what you’ve got and 50% what people think you’ve got.
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I think the quality of sexiness comes from within. It is something that is in you or it isn’t and it really doesn’t have much to do with breasts or thighs or the pout of your lips.
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A dog is faithful, a woman never.
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True happiness is impossible without solitude.
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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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The Fountain of Youth is in your mind.
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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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The most indespensible ingredient of all good home cooking: love for those you are cooking for.
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Nothing makes a woman more beautiful than the belief that she is beautiful.
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Ignorance has its virtues; without it there’d be mighty little conversation.
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Mistakes are a part of the dues one pays for a full life.
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