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.
SOPHIA LORENSuccess, I would find out, is interior. It has to do with self-fulfillment and the joy of living.
More Sophia Loren Quotes
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Believe me, it is actions that count.
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Beauty is in you and is reflected in your eyes. It is not material.
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The right hairstyle can make a plain woman beautiful and a beautiful woman unforgettable.
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Nothing makes a woman more beautiful than the belief that she is beautiful.
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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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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 think the quality of sexiness comes from within.
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Without 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.
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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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Sometimes when you involve yourself in so many things, you can’t do any of them well – and I like to do everything perfectly.
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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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The eyes of a woman who never cried can not be beautiful.
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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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Hate is unfulfilled love.
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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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