Nothing makes a woman more beautiful than the belief that she is beautiful.
– Sophia Loren
Everything you see I owe to pasta.
– Sophia Loren
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
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 have truly
defeated age.
– 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
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
The only people who never make mistakes are the ones who don’t do anything. Mistakes are
part of the dues one pays for living a full life.
– Sophia Loren
If you haven’t cried, your eyes cannot be beautiful.
– Sophia Loren
It’s a mistake to think that once you’re done with school you need never learn anything new.
– Sophia Loren
If you can learn to use your mind as well as your powder puff, you will become more truly
beautiful.
– Sophia Loren
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
Beauty is how you feel inside, and it reflects in your eyes. It is not something physical.
– Sophia Loren
I hated my father all my life but in his final days I forgave him for all the suffering he caused
us. As you grow older, marry, and have children of you own, you learn and forget. I do not
forget easily, but I do forgive.
– Sophia Loren
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
I’m not Italian, I am Neapolitan! It’s another thing.
– Sophia Loren
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.
– Sophia Loren
When – Sophia Loren is naked, that is a lot of nakedness.
– Sophia Loren
It is very important for an actor or actress to look around at everything and everyone and
never forget about real life.
– Sophia Loren
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
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
You give but little when you give of your possessions. It is when you give of yourself that
you truly give.
– Sophia Loren
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
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
Sex appeal is fifty percent what you’ve got and fifty percent what people think you’ve got.
– Sophia Loren
I do not have a set regimen of exercise. The only activity I really enjoy is swimming. And I
love to walk for long distances.
– 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
I always wake up early and jump out of bed – sometimes not wanting to, because one can
always find an alibi not to exercise – and then I take a walk for an hour. And as I walk around
the park I always think, “Maybe around 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
The two big advantages I had at birth were to have been born wise and have been born in
poverty.
– Sophia Loren
A woman’s dress should be like a barbed-wire fence, serving its purpose without obstructing
the view.
– Sophia Loren