Sophia Loren
You have to enjoy life. Always be surrounded by people that you like, people who have a nice conversation. There are so many positive things to think about.Collection: Positive
Spaghetti can be eaten most successfully if you inhale it like a vacuum cleaner.Collection: Food
Beauty is how you feel inside, and it reflects in your eyes. It is not something physical.Collection: Beauty
No press conference announcing a last film. I'd just steal away. Best way because, if by chance after two or three years something interesting comes up, I would not - like Sinatra - have to say: 'Well, I've thought it over and decided to come back.'Collection: Chance
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 truly have defeated age.Collection: Age
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.Collection: Alone
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.Collection: Faith
I am against all war.Collection: War
Sex appeal is fifty percent what you've got and fifty percent what people think you've got.
Mistakes are part of the dues one pays for a full life.
Everything you see I owe to spaghetti.
A woman's dress should be like a barbed-wire fence: serving its purpose without obstructing the view.
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.
If you haven't cried, your eyes can't be beautiful.
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 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.
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.
Mistakes are a part of the dues one pays for a full life.
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.
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.
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.
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.
I'm a giraffe. I even walk like a giraffe with a long neck and legs. It's a pretty dumb animal, mind you.
There's no pleasure in working if you don't do the things you want to do.
You cannot say, because I am from Naples so I like the mixture of drama and comedy all together.
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.
The two big advantages I had at birth were to have been born wise and to have been born in poverty.
I am lucky. I had a very beautiful mother.
A mother has to think twice, once for herself and once for her child.
It's a mistake to think that once you're done with school you need never learn anything new.
I eat a lot of salad, a little meat, and some fruit. That's all. But I like sweets.
I'm an actress. It's my passion.
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.
I walk, walk, walk, walk. That's very good for your heart.
I'm sick when I don't work for year or two.
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.
I'm a very shy person and I never tried to do theater.
I always try to have a vacation.
It is a great advantage for a system of philosophy to be substantially true.
I'm an actress. It's my passion. It's - I've always lived for acting.
I'd much rather eat pasta and drink wine than be a size 0.Collection: Wine
Nothing makes a woman more beautiful than the belief that she is beautiful.Collection: Inspirational
Mistakes are the price of an interesting life.Collection: Mistake
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.Collection: Makeup
I have my own peculiar yardstick for measuring a man: Does he have the courage to cry in a moment of grief? Does he have the compassion not to hunt an animal? In his relationship with a woman, is he gentle? Real manliness is nurtured in kindness and gentleness, which I associate with intelligence, comprehension, tolerance, justice, education, and high morality. If only men realized how easy it is to open a woman's heart with kindness, and how many women close their hearts to the assaults of the Don Juans.Collection: Kindness
My philosophy is that it's better to explore life and make mistakes than to play it safe and not to explore at all.Collection: Life
Good food is a celebration of life.Collection: Food
I know how to say 'no' in twelve languages. That's enough for a woman.Collection: Twelve
Physical exercise makes you more graceful. After some gymnasitics you walk as if the whole street is yours.Collection: Exercise
You do not become a star, you are born a star. A star is born with that indefinable extra something.Collection: Stars