Where youthful beauty is unconscious, mature beauty is knowing and sophisticated.
SOPHIA LORENI 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.
More Sophia Loren Quotes
-
-
Sometimes when you involve yourself in so many things, you can’t do any of them well – and I like to do everything perfectly.
SOPHIA LOREN -
My philosophy is that it’s better to explore life and make mistakes than to play it safe and not to explore at all.
SOPHIA LOREN -
I firmly believe we can make our own miracles if we believe strongly enough in ourselves and our mission on earth.
SOPHIA LOREN -
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.
SOPHIA LOREN -
There is no better love potion than a coffee. When a man drinks the coffee made by you he will become forever yours.
SOPHIA LOREN -
Beauty is how you feel inside, and it reflects in your eyes. It is not something physical.
SOPHIA LOREN -
If you can learn to use your mind as well as your powder puff, you will become more truly beautiful.
SOPHIA LOREN -
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.
SOPHIA LOREN -
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.
SOPHIA LOREN -
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.
SOPHIA LOREN -
Luck assists fortune, you need to catch the moment. Otherwise the opportunity fades.
SOPHIA LOREN -
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.
SOPHIA LOREN -
Mistakes are a part of the dues one pays for a full life.
SOPHIA LOREN -
The most indespensible ingredient of all good home cooking: love for those you are cooking for.
SOPHIA LOREN -
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.
SOPHIA LOREN