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.
SOPHIA LORENAs far as beauty is concerned, in order to be confident we must accept that the way we look and feel is our own responsibility.
More Sophia Loren Quotes
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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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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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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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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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Success, I would find out, is interior. It has to do with self-fulfillment and the joy of living.
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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 right hairstyle can make a plain woman beautiful and a beautiful woman unforgettable.
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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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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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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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I have never judged myself by other people’s standards. I have always expected a great deal of myself, and if I fail, I fail myself.
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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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Mistakes are a part of the dues one pays for a full life.
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The Fountain of Youth is in your mind.
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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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