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.
SOPHIA LORENUntil you lose your mother you don’t know what it is.
More Sophia Loren Quotes
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Hate is unfulfilled love.
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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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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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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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I know how to say ‘no’ in twelve languages. That’s enough for a woman.
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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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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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The fantasy of a man is the best weapon of a woman.
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Transformation is something I cannot explain – too much analysis might destroy it.
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If you haven’t cried, your eyes can’t be beautiful.
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It’s a mistake to think that once you’re done with school you need never learn anything new.
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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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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 was born wise. Street-wise, people-wise, self-wise. This wisdom was my birthright.
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There’s no pleasure in working if you don’t do the things you want to do.
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