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.
SOPHIA LORENI still don’t know what I want to do when I grow up.
More Sophia Loren Quotes
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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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Good food is a celebration of life.
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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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I’m very susceptible to sex appeal.
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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’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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There’s no pleasure in working if you don’t do the things you want to do.
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I don’t like to run. I don’t like to jump up and down. Being a big girl and having a bosom, I injure myself! It upsets me, I have to hold my two things. I just can’t jog, there’s something in the way.
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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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Hate is unfulfilled love.
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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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You do not become a star, you are born a star. A star is born with that indefinable extra something.
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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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The girl who swears no one has ever made love to her has a right to swear.
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I believe that rewards in life are deserved. Every reward is the fruit of discipline, of dedication and of sacrifices. And of stubbornness.
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