Transformation is something I cannot explain – too much analysis might destroy it.
SOPHIA LORENCooking is an act of love, a gift, a way of sharing with others the little secrets — ‘piccoli segreti’ — that are simmering on the burners.
More Sophia Loren Quotes
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The two big advantages I had at birth were to have been born wise and to have been born in poverty.
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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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Nothing makes a woman more beautiful than the belief that she is beautiful.
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I think the quality of sexiness comes from within.
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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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Where youthful beauty is unconscious, mature beauty is knowing and sophisticated.
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Everything you live through helps to make you the person you are now.
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Beauty is in you and is reflected in your eyes. It is not material.
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A mother has to think twice, once for herself and once for her child.
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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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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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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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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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If you don’t have the roots somewhere, it’s very difficult for people to work with you. Because you are a different person from them. They don’t know you, really. They don’t know how you feel.
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Until you lose your mother you don’t know what it is.
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