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.
SOPHIA LORENI eat a lot of salad, a little meat, and some fruit—that’s all. But I like sweets.
More Sophia Loren Quotes
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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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The mirror of your health is your skin. If you drink, it shows in your face; if you eat the wrong foods, you have pimples. If you take care of your food and you lead a healthy life, your skin will look wonderful.
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You do not become a star, you are born a star. A star is born with that indefinable extra something.
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A mother has to think twice, once for herself and once for her child.
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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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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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The Fountain of Youth is in your mind.
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Sex is like washing your face – just something you do because you have to. Sex without love is absolutely ridiculous. Sex follows love, it never precedes it.
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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 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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Mistakes are the price of an interesting life.
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I was born wise. Street-wise, people-wise, self-wise. This wisdom was my birthright.
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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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I’m very susceptible to sex appeal.
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Be honest about what you can get. To make a sacrifice and to get what you want you need to be very certain. In other words: always think about your objective, have a clear goal and commit to it from the heart.
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