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 LORENThere is a fountain of youth: it is your mind, your talents, the creativity you bring to your life and the lives of the people you love. When you learn to tap this source, you will truly have defeated age.
More Sophia Loren Quotes
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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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Everything you live through helps to make you the person you are now.
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I’m very susceptible to sex appeal.
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Until you lose your mother you don’t know what it is.
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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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Mistakes are the price of an interesting life.
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Where youthful beauty is unconscious, mature beauty is knowing and sophisticated.
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Cooking is an act of love, a gift, a way of sharing with others the little secrets — ‘piccoli segreti’ — that are simmering on the burners.
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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’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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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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You can always dream. Life is full of dreams that you can fulfill.
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I still like me, inside and out. Not in a vain way – I just feel good in my skin.
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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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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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