Explore Quotes by Sophia Loren

I'm a very shy person and I never tried to do theater.

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.

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.

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.

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 always try to have a vacation.

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

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.

Mistakes are a part of the dues one pays for a full life.

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

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.

Is my mother my friend? I would have to say, first of all she is my Mother, with a capital 'M'; she's something sacred to me. I love her dearly...yes, she is also a good friend, someone I can talk openly with if I want to.

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