I was born wise. Street-wise, people-wise, self-wise. This wisdom was my birthright.
SOPHIA LORENSometimes when you involve yourself in so many things, you can’t do any of them well – and I like to do everything perfectly.
More Sophia Loren Quotes
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Luck assists fortune, you need to catch the moment. Otherwise the opportunity fades.
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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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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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Mistakes are the price of an interesting life.
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The most indespensible ingredient of all good home cooking: love for those you are cooking for.
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I don’t like to go in places where women talk and gossip. The atmosphere I don’t like, even though you can sometimes meet nice people. For me, it’s a waste of time.
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I know how to say ‘no’ in twelve languages. That’s enough for a woman.
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There is no better love potion than a coffee. When a man drinks the coffee made by you he will become forever yours.
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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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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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I’d much rather eat pasta and drink wine than be a size 0.
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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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Transformation is something I cannot explain – too much analysis might destroy it.
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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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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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