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.
SOPHIA LORENYou 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.
More Sophia Loren Quotes
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Good food is a celebration of life.
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Until you lose your mother you don’t know what it is.
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Sex appeal is 50% what you’ve got and 50% what people think you’ve got.
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As far as beauty is concerned, in order to be confident we must accept that the way we look and feel is our own responsibility.
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A woman’s dress should be like a barbed-wire fence: serving its purpose without obstructing the view.
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The eyes of a woman who never cried can not be beautiful.
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Many 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.
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Beauty is in you and is reflected in your eyes. It is not material.
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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 mirror of your health is your skin. If you drink, it shows in your face; if you eat the wrong foods, you have pimples. If you take care of your food and you lead a healthy life, your skin will look wonderful.
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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’d much rather eat pasta and drink wine than be a size 0.
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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 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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Everything you live through helps to make you the person you are now.
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