I was born wise. Street-wise, people-wise, self-wise. This wisdom was my birthright.
SOPHIA LORENI think the quality of sexiness comes from within.
More Sophia Loren Quotes
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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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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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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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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.
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A dog is faithful, a woman never.
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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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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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If you don’t have the roots somewhere, it’s very difficult for people to work with you. Because you are a different person from them. They don’t know you, really. They don’t know how you feel.
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Luck assists fortune, you need to catch the moment. Otherwise the opportunity fades.
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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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Hate is unfulfilled love.
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It’s a mistake to think that once you’re done with school you need never learn anything new.
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Sex appeal is 50% what you’ve got and 50% what people think you’ve got.
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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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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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A mother has to think twice, once for herself and once for her child.
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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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Style must be adapted to the woman and not vice versa. The same can be said of clothes.
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The most indespensible ingredient of all good home cooking: love for those you are cooking for.
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I still like me, inside and out. Not in a vain way – I just feel good in my skin.
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Sex is like washing your face – just something you do because you have to. Sex without love is absolutely ridiculous. Sex follows love, it never precedes it.
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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 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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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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True happiness is impossible without solitude.
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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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