I am lucky. I had a very beautiful mother.
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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Sex appeal is 50% what you’ve got and 50% what people think you’ve got.
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And as I walk round the park I always think, ‘Maybe round the corner I am going to find something beautiful.’ I always think positively. It is very rare that you find me in a mood that is sad or melancholic.
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When I’m walking along in the street, I always feel that around the corner, there is something wonderful waiting for me. That’s my attitude.
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It’s necessary to have an energy that carries you forward. You need the will to live, to have a great curiosity. To look for the best in life, to find new interests.
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The Fountain of Youth is in your mind.
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The eyes of a woman who never cried can not be beautiful.
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Everything you live through helps to make you the person you are now.
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The fantasy of a man is the best weapon of a woman.
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I’d much rather eat pasta and drink wine than be a size 0.
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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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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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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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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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Good food is a celebration of life.
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You have to enjoy life. Always be surrounded by people that you like, people who have a nice conversation. There are so many positive things to think about.
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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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Believe me, it is actions that count.
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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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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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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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Being beautiful can never hurt, but you have to have more. You have to sparkle, you have to be fun, you have to make your brain work if you have one.
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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 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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Style must be adapted to the woman and not vice versa. The same can be said of clothes.
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Where youthful beauty is unconscious, mature beauty is knowing and sophisticated.
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