Explore Quotes by Sophia Loren

I am lucky. I had a very beautiful mother.

I eat a lot of salad, a little meat, and some fruit. That's all. But I like sweets.

I walk, walk, walk, walk. That's very good for your heart.

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

I'm sick when I don't work for year or two.

I'm a very shy person, and I never tried to do theater. I've been asked many, many times by the most incredible authors in America to do theater. And I always said no, not knowing what it is to be on the stage and to do theater.

Be careful about what you eat because otherwise you get fat! Do you like to be fat? Eat very, very, very little things. Almost starve, but I don't starve, because I eat very much.

I'm an actress. It's my passion. It's - I've always lived for acting.

Sex appeal is fifty percent what you've got and fifty percent what people think you've got.

I think, in our life I think that when you are an actor, when you are a producer, you have to be very discreet about your personal life, and you have to be closed in, in harmony and in affection and in everything.

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

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

Getting ahead in a difficult profession requires avid faith in yourself.

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

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.

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

Good food is a celebration of 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.

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

I think the quality of sexiness comes from within.

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.