Sophia Loren Quotes

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

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

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

Everything you see I owe to spaghetti.

Mistakes are the price of an interesting life.

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.

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

I have my own peculiar yardstick for measuring a man: Does he have the courage to cry in a moment of grief? Does he have the compassion not to hunt an animal? In his relationship with a woman, is he gentle? Real manliness is nurtured in kindness and gentleness, which I associate with intelligence, comprehension, tolerance, justice, education, and high morality. If only men realized how easy it is to open a woman's heart with kindness, and how many women close their hearts to the assaults of the Don Juans.

My philosophy is that it's better to explore life and make mistakes than to play it safe and not to explore at all.

Everything you live through helps to make you the person you are now.

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

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

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

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.

Hate is unfulfilled love.

Film is just a mirror of the society we live in.

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.

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

Beauty is in you and is reflected in your eyes. It is not material.

The fantasy of a man is the best weapon of a woman.

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

I still don't know what I want to do when I grow up.

Good food is a celebration of life.

You can always dream. Life is full of dreams that you can fulfill.

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.