Isn’t it wonderful to be alive? You know, you can forget all about it. Then suddenly you remember, and think of all the things you can do. Here I am. I can walk around. I can talk. I can see things and remember things. I am alive. How wonderful!
SOPHIA LORENMany people think they want things, but they don’t really have the strength, the discipline. They are weak. I believe that you get what you want if you want it badly enough.
More Sophia Loren Quotes
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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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Sex appeal is 50% what you’ve got and 50% what people think you’ve got.
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Until you lose your mother you don’t know what it is.
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You really have to be satisfied with what you are and accept from life what it still very generously offers you – and notice it, and be glad for it.
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Beauty is in you and is reflected in your eyes. It is not material.
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I still don’t know what I want to do when I grow up.
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Believe me, it is actions that count.
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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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I eat a lot of salad, a little meat, and some fruit—that’s all. But I like sweets.
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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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I have no regrets. regret only makes wrinkles.
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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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Where youthful beauty is unconscious, mature beauty is knowing and sophisticated.
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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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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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Mistakes are a part of the dues one pays for a full life.
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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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Physical exercise makes you more graceful. After some gymnasitics you walk as if the whole street is yours.
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Good food is a celebration of life.
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You have to be born a sex symbol. You don’t become one. If you’re born with it, you’ll have it even when you’re 100 years old.
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I am lucky. I had a very beautiful mother.
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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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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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Be honest about what you can get. To make a sacrifice and to get what you want you need to be very certain. In other words: always think about your objective, have a clear goal and commit to it from the heart.
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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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