If you don’t have the roots somewhere, it’s very difficult for people to work with you. Because you are a different person from them. They don’t know you, really. They don’t know how you feel.
SOPHIA LORENAnd 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.
More Sophia Loren Quotes
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Good food is a celebration of life.
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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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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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The Fountain of Youth is in your mind.
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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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The fantasy of a man is the best weapon of a woman.
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Beauty is no handicap if you don’t think about it.
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I have no regrets. regret only makes wrinkles.
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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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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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Transformation is something I cannot explain – too much analysis might destroy it.
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Nothing makes a woman more beautiful than the belief that she is beautiful.
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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 still don’t know what I want to do when I grow up.
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The eyes of a woman who never cried can not be beautiful.
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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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The two big advantages I had at birth were to have been born wise and to have been born in poverty.
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Sex appeal is 50% what you’ve got and 50% what people think you’ve got.
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Mistakes are a part of the dues one pays for a full life.
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Hate is unfulfilled love.
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Ignorance has its virtues; without it there’d be mighty little conversation.
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Believe me, it is actions that count.
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After all these years, I am still involved in the process of self-discovery. It’s better to explore life and make mistakes than to play it safe. Mistakes are part of the dues one pays for a full life.
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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.
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Everything you live through helps to make you the person you are now.
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