You must all, somewhere deep in your hearts, believe that you have a special beauty that is like no other and that is so valuable that you must not abandon it. Indeed, you must learn to cherish it.
SOPHIA LORENHate is unfulfilled love.
More Sophia Loren Quotes
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Beauty is no handicap if you don’t think about it.
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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 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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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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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 have no regrets. regret only makes wrinkles.
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If you haven’t cried, your eyes can’t be beautiful.
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The Fountain of Youth is in your mind.
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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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It’s necessary to have an energy that carries you forward. You need the will to live, to have a great curiosity. To look for the best in life, to find new interests.
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Many people think they want things, but they don’t really have the strength, the discipline. They are weak. I believe that you get what you want if you want it badly enough.
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The right hairstyle can make a plain woman beautiful and a beautiful woman unforgettable.
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Mistakes are a part of the dues one pays for a full life.
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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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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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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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Without my mother’s ambition, her drive, I doubt that on my own I would have pushed myself out of Pozzuoli and into the frightening world that was faraway Rome.
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I believe that rewards in life are deserved. Every reward is the fruit of discipline, of dedication and of sacrifices. And of stubbornness.
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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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Sex appeal is 50% what you’ve got and 50% what people think you’ve got.
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I still don’t know what I want to do when I grow up.
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After all these years, I am still involved in the process of self-discovery. It’s better to explore life and make mistakes than to play it safe. Mistakes are part of the dues one pays for a full life.
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I was born wise. Street-wise, people-wise, self-wise. This wisdom was my birthright.
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A woman’s dress should be like a barbed-wire fence: serving its purpose without obstructing the view.
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I’d much rather eat pasta and drink wine than be a size 0.
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