The two big advantages I had at birth were to have been born wise and to have been born in poverty.
SOPHIA LORENStyle must be adapted to the woman and not vice versa. The same can be said of clothes.
More Sophia Loren Quotes
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Mistakes are a part of the dues one pays for a full life.
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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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Until you lose your mother you don’t know what it is.
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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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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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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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Where youthful beauty is unconscious, mature beauty is knowing and sophisticated.
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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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Style must be adapted to the woman and not vice versa. The same can be said of clothes.
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Ignorance has its virtues; without it there’d be mighty little conversation.
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Learn to use your brains as deftly as your powder box, and then maybe you have a powder box and do not need.
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Beauty is in you and is reflected in your eyes. It is not material.
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I’d much rather eat pasta and drink wine than be a size 0.
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Success, I would find out, is interior. It has to do with self-fulfillment and the joy of living.
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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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