Sophia Loren quotes

You have to enjoy life. Always be surrounded by people that you like, people who have a nice conversation. There are so many positive things to think about.
-- Sophia Loren

#Nice #Thinking #People

A woman's dress should be like a barbed-wire fence: serving its purpose without obstructing the view.
-- Sophia Loren

#Love #Fashion #Views

Nothing makes a woman more beautiful than the belief that she is beautiful.
-- Sophia Loren

#Inspirational #Beauty #Beautiful

Beauty is how you feel inside, and it reflects in your eyes. It is not something physical.
-- Sophia Loren

#Beauty #Eye #Positivity

Mistakes are a part of the dues one pays for a full life.
-- Sophia Loren

#Inspirational #Positive #Mistake

When you are a mother, you are never really alone in your thoughts. A mother always has to think twice, once for herself and once for her child.
-- Sophia Loren

#Family #Mothers Day #Mom

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 Loren

#Inspirational #Life #Motivational

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.
-- Sophia Loren

#People #Failing #Standards

Everything you see I owe to spaghetti.
-- Sophia Loren

#Beauty #Food #Inspiration

The facts of life are that a child who has seen war cannot be compared with a child who doesn't know what war is except from television.
-- Sophia Loren

#Children #War #Television

Almost starve, but I don’t starve because I eat very much
-- Sophia Loren

Is my mother my friend? I would have to say, first of all she is my Mother, with a capital 'M'; she's something sacred to me. I love her dearly...yes, she is also a good friend, someone I can talk openly with if I want to.
-- Sophia Loren

#Mom #Mother #Good Friend

If you haven't cried, your eyes can't be beautiful.
-- Sophia Loren

#Beautiful #Eye #Tears

Any woman can look her best if she feels good in her skin. It's not a question of clothes or makeup. It's how she sparkles.
-- Sophia Loren

#Makeup #Clothes #Feel Good

A mother has to think twice, once for herself and once for her child.
-- Sophia Loren

#Mother #Children #Thinking

There is a fountain of youth: it is your mind, your talents, the creativity you bring to your life and the lives of people you love. When you learn to tap this source, you will truly have defeated age.
-- Sophia Loren

#Life #Birthday #Uplifting

I've never tried to block out the memories of the past, even though some are painful. I don't understand people who hide from their past. Everything you live through helps to make you the person you are now.
-- Sophia Loren

#Inspiring #Memories #Block

Spaghetti can be eaten most successfully if you inhale it like a vacuum cleaner.
-- Sophia Loren

#Food #Vacuums #Spaghetti

If you can learn to use your mind as well as your powder puff, you will become more truly beautiful.
-- Sophia Loren

#Beautiful #Mind #Use

The most indespensible ingredient of all good home cooking: love for those you are cooking for.
-- Sophia Loren

#Home #Cooking #Ingredients

The right hairstyle can make a plain woman beautiful and a beautiful woman unforgettable.
-- Sophia Loren

#Beautiful #Beautiful Women #Unforgettable

Transformation is something I cannot explain - too much analysis might destroy it.
-- Sophia Loren

#Analysis #Might #Too Much

The two big advantages I had at birth were to have been born wise and to have been born in poverty.
-- Sophia Loren

#Wise #Two #Poverty

I think the quality of sexiness comes from within. It is something that is in you or it isn't and it really doesn't have much to do with breasts or thighs or the pout of your lips.
-- Sophia Loren

#Thinking #Quality #Lips

Getting ahead in a difficult profession requires avid faith in yourself. That is why some people with mediocre talent, but with great inner drive, go so much further than people with vastly superior talent.
-- Sophia Loren

#Inspiring #Graduation #Self Esteem

I always try to have a vacation.
-- Sophia Loren

#Vacation #Trying

It's a mistake to think that once you're done with school you need never learn anything new.
-- Sophia Loren

#Mistake #School #Reality

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

#Believe #Thinking #Discipline

Physical exercise makes you more graceful. After some gymnasitics you walk as if the whole street is yours.
-- Sophia Loren

#Exercise #Streets #Walks

A dog is faithful, a woman never.
-- Sophia Loren

#Dog #Faithful

I can cook, I can breathe, I can live!
-- Sophia Loren

#Breathe #Cooks

Isn't it wonderful to be alive? You know, you can forget all about it. Then suddenly you remember, and think of all the things you can do. Here I am. I can walk around. I can talk. I can see things and remember things. I am alive. How wonderful!
-- Sophia Loren

#Thinking #Alive #Remember

The girl who swears no one has ever made love to her has a right to swear.
-- Sophia Loren

#Girl #Made #Swear

The fantasy of a man is the best weapon of a woman.
-- Sophia Loren

#Men #Weapons #Fantasy

I was not interested in what I could bring to myself by being an actress, but in what I could bring out of myself.
-- Sophia Loren

#Actresses #Not Interested

I'm very susceptible to sex appeal.
-- Sophia Loren

#Sex #Appeals

Beauty is no handicap if you don't think about it.
-- Sophia Loren

#Thinking #Handicaps

I still like me, inside and out. Not in a vain way - I just feel good in my skin.
-- Sophia Loren

#Feel Good #Skins #Way

True love comes along after adolescence, when we have learned not to cry for nothing.
-- Sophia Loren

#Cry #Adolescence

For me, it is good to be vulnerable. It makes me nice... weak sometimes, but in a good way, not a tragic way.
-- Sophia Loren

#Nice #Way #Sometimes

Hate is unfulfilled love.
-- Sophia Loren

#Hate

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

#Coffee #Men #Forever

I was born wise. Street-wise, people-wise, self-wise. This wisdom was my birthright.
-- Sophia Loren

#Wise #Self #People

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.
-- Sophia Loren

#Cooking #Secret #Littles

At the dressing table, every woman has a chance to be an artist, and art, as Aristotle said, 'completes what nature left unfinished.'
-- Sophia Loren

#Art #Tables #Chance

You must all, somewhere deep in your hearts, believe that you have a special beauty that is like no other and that is so valuable that you must not abandon it. Indeed, you must learn to cherish it.
-- Sophia Loren

#Believe #Heart #Special

I know how to say 'no' in twelve languages. That's enough for a woman.
-- Sophia Loren

#Twelve #Language #Enough

Sex appeal is 50% what you've got and 50% what people think you've got.
-- Sophia Loren

#Funny #Sexy #Thinking

Good food is a celebration of life.
-- Sophia Loren

#Food #Celebration #Celebration Of Life

I was not intrigued with the accouterments of success and fame, the furs, jewels, expensive automobiles and mansions... I can assure you that these things were not on my mind when I sat spellbound in that Pozzuoli movie house. It was what these performers on the screen were doing, not what they received for doing it.
-- Sophia Loren

#Jewels #House #Mind

No press conference announcing a last film. I'd just steal away. Best way because, if by chance after two or three years something interesting comes up, I would not - like Sinatra - have to say: 'Well, I've thought it over and decided to come back.'
-- Sophia Loren

#Years #Two #Interesting

You cannot say, because I am from Naples so I like the mixture of drama and comedy all together.
-- Sophia Loren

#Drama #Together #Mixtures

I'm an actress. It's my passion.
-- Sophia Loren

#Passion #Actresses #My Passion

I'm a very shy person and I never tried to do theater.
-- Sophia Loren

#Shy #Theater #Persons

I'm a giraffe. I even walk like a giraffe with a long neck and legs. It's a pretty dumb animal, mind you.
-- Sophia Loren

#Animal #Long #Dumb

You have to be born a sex symbol. You don't become one. If you're born with it, you'll have it even when you're 100 years old.
-- Sophia Loren

#Sex #Years #Born

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.
-- Sophia Loren

#Sex #Love Is #Faces

And as I walk round the park I always think, 'Maybe round the corner I am going to find something beautiful.' I always think positively. It is very rare that you find me in a mood that is sad or melancholic,
-- Sophia Loren

#Beautiful #Thinking #Parks

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.
-- Sophia Loren

#Responsibility #Order #Way

I'd much rather eat pasta and drink wine than be a size 0.
-- Sophia Loren

#Wine #Pasta #Size

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

#Life #Mistake #Philosophy

Style must be adapted to the woman and not vice versa. The same can be said of clothes.
-- Sophia Loren

#Clothes #Style #Vices

I was blessed with a sense of my own destiny. I have never sold myself short. 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. So failure or reversal does not bring out resentment in me because I cannot blame others for any misfortune that befalls me.
-- Sophia Loren

#Life #Blessed #Destiny

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

#Equality #Men #Feet

Getting ahead in a difficult profession requires avid faith in yourself...
-- Sophia Loren

#Avid #Difficult #Faith In Yourself

Where youthful beauty is unconscious, mature beauty is knowing and sophisticated.
-- Sophia Loren

#Knowing #Mature #Sophisticated

I am against all war.
-- Sophia Loren

#War

Getting ahead in a difficult profession - singing, acting, writing, whatever requires avid faith in yourself. You must be able to sustain yourself against staggering blows and unfair reversals. When I think back to those first couple of years in Rome, those endless rejections, without a glimmer of encouragement from anyone, all those failed screen tests, and yet I never let my desire slide away from me, my belief in myself and what I felt I could achieve.
-- Sophia Loren

#Encouragement #Couple #Writing

I eat a lot of salad, a little meat, and some fruit—that’s all. But I like sweets.
-- Sophia Loren

#Sweet #Salad #Fruit

Being beautiful can never hurt, but you have to have more. You have to sparkle, you have to be fun, you have to make your brain work if you have one.
-- Sophia Loren

#Beautiful #Hurt #Fun

i have no regrets. regret only makes wrinkles.
-- Sophia Loren

#Regret #Wrinkles #No Regrets

Ignorance has its virtues; without it there'd be mighty little conversation.
-- Sophia Loren

#Ignorance #Littles #Virtue

I think the quality of sexiness comes from within.
-- Sophia Loren

#Thinking #Quality #Sexiness