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 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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I don’t like to run. I don’t like to jump up and down. Being a big girl and having a bosom, I injure myself! It upsets me, I have to hold my two things. I just can’t jog, there’s something in the way.
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Beauty is in you and is reflected in your eyes. It is not material.
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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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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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Physical exercise makes you more graceful. After some gymnasitics you walk as if the whole street is yours.
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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.
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Any woman can look her best if she feels good in her skin. It’s not a question of clothes or makeup. It’s how she sparkles.
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Luck assists fortune, you need to catch the moment. Otherwise the opportunity fades.
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True happiness is impossible without solitude.
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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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I was so skinny, they gave me the nickname stechetto – the stick. I was tall, thin, ugly and dark like an Arab girl. I looked strange. All eyes. No flesh on my bones.
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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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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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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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The girl who swears no one has ever made love to her has a right to swear.
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