Sophia Loren Quotes - Page 3

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

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.

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

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.

I am lucky. I had a very beautiful mother.

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.

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

I do not know if I really am a big star. And in fact that is not the most important thing for me. What counts in life is to bring about more of your own dreams. In such a way that your life becomes like a fairy tale. This is what has happened to me, it is just like that.

I believe that rewards in life are deserved. Every reward is the fruit of discipline, of dedication and of sacrifices. And of stubbornness.

The Fountain of Youth is in your mind.

There is no better love potion than a coffee. When a man drinks the coffee made by you he will become forever yours.

Until you lose your mother you don't know what it is.

Sometimes when you involve yourself in so many things, you can't do any of them well - and I like to do everything perfectly.

There's no pleasure in working if you don't do the things you want to do.

The eyes of a woman who never cried can not be beautiful.

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.

I think the quality of sexiness comes from within.

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

A dog is faithful, a woman never.

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.

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.

I'm very susceptible to sex appeal.

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.

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

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.