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.
SOPHIA LORENUntil you lose your mother you don’t know what it is.
More Sophia Loren Quotes
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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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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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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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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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Success, I would find out, is interior. It has to do with self-fulfillment and the joy of living.
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I eat a lot of salad, a little meat, and some fruit—that’s all. But I like sweets.
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I have never judged myself by other people’s standards. I have always expected a great deal of myself, and if I fail, I fail myself.
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Nothing makes a woman more beautiful than the belief that she is beautiful.
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There is no greater love potion than regular coffee, brewed his own. When a man tries it, he was not going anywhere.
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Beauty is in you and is reflected in your eyes. It is not material.
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The most indespensible ingredient of all good home cooking: love for those you are cooking for.
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Jealousy is a miserable feeling. It means you aspire to something that you cannot have. Even in love, it is better to leave, better not to waste time.
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Mistakes are a part of the dues one pays for a full life.
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You really have to be satisfied with what you are and accept from life what it still very generously offers you – and notice it, and be glad for it.
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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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