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 LORENMistakes are the price of an interesting life.
More Sophia Loren Quotes
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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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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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I eat a lot of salad, a little meat, and some fruit—that’s all. But I like sweets.
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Nothing makes a woman more beautiful than the belief that she is beautiful.
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Physical exercise makes you more graceful. After some gymnasitics you walk as if the whole street is yours.
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Learn to use your brains as deftly as your powder box, and then, perhaps, powder box you will not need. Know smart women men say beautiful – eyes snatched from the crowd and do not forget just charming.
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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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Until you lose your mother you don’t know what it is.
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Jealousy is a miserable feeling. It means you aspire to something that you cannot have. Even in love, it is better to leave, better not to waste time.
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Being beautiful can never hurt, but you have to have more. You have to sparkle, you have to be fun, you have to make your brain work if you have one.
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The facts of life are that a child who has seen war cannot be compared with a child who doesn’t know what war is except from television.
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You have to enjoy life. Always be surrounded by people that you like, people who have a nice conversation. There are so many positive things to think about.
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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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I think the quality of sexiness comes from within.
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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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