I was not interested in what I could bring to myself by being an actress, but in what I could bring out of myself.
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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You have to be born a sex symbol. You don’t become one. If you’re born with it, you’ll have it even when you’re 100 years old.
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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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Success, I would find out, is interior. It has to do with self-fulfillment and the joy of living.
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Be honest about what you can get. To make a sacrifice and to get what you want you need to be very certain. In other words: always think about your objective, have a clear goal and commit to it from the heart.
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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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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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I was born wise. Street-wise, people-wise, self-wise. This wisdom was my birthright.
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It’s a mistake to think that once you’re done with school you need never learn anything new.
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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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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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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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There’s no pleasure in working if you don’t do the things you want to do.
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I think the quality of sexiness comes from within.
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Until you lose your mother you don’t know what it is.
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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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