The Fountain of Youth is in your mind.
SOPHIA LORENWhen you are a mother, you are never really alone in your thoughts. A mother always has to think twice, once for herself and once for her child.
More Sophia Loren Quotes
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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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Getting ahead in a difficult profession requires avid faith in yourself. That is why some people with mediocre talent, but with great inner drive, go so much further than people with vastly superior talent.
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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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Ignorance has its virtues; without it there’d be mighty little conversation.
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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’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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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.
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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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Beauty is how you feel inside, and it reflects in your eyes. It is not something physical.
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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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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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You can always dream. Life is full of dreams that you can fulfill.
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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!
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If you haven’t cried, your eyes can’t be beautiful.
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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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