Sophia Loren
If you don't have the roots somewhere, it's very difficult for people to work with you. Because you are a different person from them. They don't know you, really. They don't know how you feel.Collection: Roots
I can't tell you that I like getting older, but I think I can cope with it because everybody gets older. Sometimes it's a little upsetting because time goes by and you want to do more and you have to accept life for what it is and find some new motivation that gives you drive and enthusiasm.Collection: Motivation
Though poor and anxious to work, I refused to alter anything. They would take me as I looked or not at all.... Eventually I profited by looking like myself and not like what was fashionable years ago with certain film technicians in Rome.Collection: Rome
I'm not Italian, I am Neapolitan! It's another thing!Collection: Italian
There is no greater love potion than regular coffee, brewed his own. When a man tries it, he was not going anywhere.Collection: Coffee
I don't like to run. I don't like to jump up and down. Being a big girl and having a bosom, I injure myself! It upsets me, I have to hold my two things. I just can't jog, there's something in the way.Collection: Girl
Learn to use your brains as deftly as your powder box, and then, perhaps, powder box you will not need ... Know smart women men say beautiful - eyes snatched from the crowd and do not forget just charming.Collection: Beautiful
Transformation is something I cannot explain - too much analysis might destroy it.Collection: Leap Of Faith
Luck assists fortune, you need to catch the moment. Otherwise the opportunity fades.Collection: Opportunity
Without my mother's ambition, her drive, I doubt that on my own I would have pushed myself out of Pozzuoli and into the frightening world that was faraway Rome.Collection: 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.Collection: Encouragement
Beauty is no handicap if you don't think about it.Collection: Thinking
I believe that rewards in life are deserved. Every reward is the fruit of discipline, of dedication and of sacrifices. And of stubbornness.Collection: Believe
Until you lose your mother you don't know what it is.Collection: Mother
The Fountain of Youth is in your mind.Collection: Mind
Sometimes when you involve yourself in so many things, you can't do any of them well - and I like to do everything perfectly.Collection: Sometimes
There is no better love potion than a coffee. When a man drinks the coffee made by you he will become forever yours.Collection: Coffee
The eyes of a woman who never cried can not be beautiful.Collection: 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.Collection: Heart
If you can learn to use your mind as well as your powder puff, you will become more truly beautiful.Collection: Beautiful
A dog is faithful, a woman never.Collection: Dog
Film is just a mirror of the society we live in.Collection: Mirrors
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.Collection: Jewels
I'm very susceptible to sex appeal.Collection: Sex
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.Collection: Dream
My mother was so beautiful, she really was a a wonderful person. Always walking like a queen. Like she owned the world. Maybe I took something from her.Collection: Beautiful
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.Collection: Believe
The mirror of your health is your skin. If you drink, it shows in your face; if you eat the wrong foods, you have pimples. If you take care of your food and you lead a healthy life, your skin will look wonderful.Collection: Mirrors
I think the quality of sexiness comes from within.Collection: Thinking
Sex appeal is 50% what you've got and 50% what people think you've got.Collection: Love
Jealousy is a miserable feeling. It means you aspire to something that you cannot have. Even in love, it is better to leave, better not to waste time.Collection: Mean
Success, I would find out, is interior. It has to do with self-fulfillment and the joy of living.Collection: Self
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.Collection: Beautiful
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.Collection: People
Isn't it wonderful to be alive? You know, you can forget all about it. Then suddenly you remember, and think of all the things you can do. Here I am. I can walk around. I can talk. I can see things and remember things. I am alive. How wonderful!Collection: Thinking
Learn to use your brains as deftly as your powder box, and then maybe you have a powder box and do not need.Collection: Brain
Where youthful beauty is unconscious, mature beauty is knowing and sophisticated.Collection: Knowing
When I'm walking along in the street, I always feel that around the corner,there is something wonderful waiting for me. That's my attitude.Collection: Attitude
The fantasy of a man is the best weapon of a woman.Collection: Men
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.Collection: Laughter
You can always dream. Life is full of dreams that you can fulfill.Collection: Dream
Believe me, it is actions that count.Collection: Believe
I firmly believe we can make our own miracles if we believe strongly enough in ourselves and our mission on earth.Collection: Believe
I think what you have inside reflects very much in your face, in your expression. If you can find a kind of equilibrium in life, you never really get old, because you have that kind of ingenuity and innocence inside that gives you that brightness and that glint in your eye that generally, getting older, you lose.Collection: Eye
I still don't know what I want to do when I grow up.Collection: Growing Up
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.Collection: Accepting
i have no regrets. regret only makes wrinkles.Collection: Regret
Beauty is in you and is reflected in your eyes. It is not material.Collection: Eye
The first woman was created from the rib of a man. She was not made from his head to top him, nor from his feet to be trampled on by him, but out of his side to be equal to him.Collection: Equality