Sophia Loren Quotes - Page 2

Believe me, it is actions that count.

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.

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

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.

My mother taught me the most important principles, to be determined in life, to be disciplined, to be able to understand that there are some things that you can't do and other things you have to do, that you always have to be surrounded by love, that you have to be understanding.

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

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!

When I'm walking along in the street, I always feel that around the corner,there is something wonderful waiting for me. That's my attitude.

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.

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.

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.

I think what you have inside reflects very much in your face, in your expression. If you can find a kind of equilibrium in life, you never really get old, because you have that kind of ingenuity and innocence inside that gives you that brightness and that glint in your eye that generally, getting older, you lose.

Success, I would find out, is interior. It has to do with self-fulfillment and the joy of living.

Where youthful beauty is unconscious, mature beauty is knowing and sophisticated.

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

I firmly believe we can make our own miracles if we believe strongly enough in ourselves and our mission on earth.

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.

i have no regrets. regret only makes wrinkles.

You do not become a star, you are born a star. A star is born with that indefinable extra something.

Learn to use your brains as deftly as your powder box, and then maybe you have a powder box and do not need.

True happiness is impossible without solitude.... I need solitude in my life as I need food and drink and the laughter of little children. Extravagant though it may sound, solitude is the filter of my soul. It nourishes me, and rejuvenates me. Left alone, I discovered that I keep myself good company.

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.

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.

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