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I enjoyed myself posing as if I was a little girl again. Sophia Loren After posing in a slinkly see through black dress at 71 for the 2007 Pirelli calendar Sex appeal is 50 per cent what you're got and 50 per cent what people think you're got. Sophia Loren You have to be born a sex symbol. You don't become one. If you are born with it, you will have it even when you are 100 years old. Sophia Loren 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 much further than people with vastly superior talent. Sophia Loren Mistakes are part of the dues one pays for a full life. Sophia Loren Nothing makes a woman more beautiful than the belief that she is beautiful. Sophia Loren When the lights went down and I was alone with Rita or Linda or Tyrone, I was suffused with the feeling that that's what I was put on earth to do, to act, to express myself, to let out whatever feelings I had inside. Sophia Loren 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. Sophia Loren Beauty is how you feel inside, and it reflects in your eyes. It is not something physical. Sophia Loren I think the quality of sexiness comes from within. It is something that is in you. 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 If you haven't cried, your eyes can't be beautiful. Sophia Loren The two big advantages I had at birth were to have been born wise and have been born in poverty. 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 truly have defeated age. 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 It is very important for an actor or actress to look around at everything and everyone and never forget about real life. Sophia Loren When I was a child, fear was common to my life-fear of having nothing to eat, fear of the other children taunting me at school because I was illegitimate, and particularly fear of the big bombers appearing overhead and dropping their lethal bursts from the sky. Sophia Loren He [Tyrone Power] was the god of my adolescence. Sophia Loren It's a mistake to think that once you're done with school you need never learn anything new. Sophia Loren I was not intrigued with the accoutrements 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. 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 the people you love. When you learn to tap this source, you will have truly defeated age. Sophia Loren Everything you see I owe to spaghetti. Sophia Loren If you are a professional actor who has pride in his work, then the judgment of your peers should be important to you. I treasure each and every award I have ever received-and my Oscar is in a place of honor. 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 A woman's dress should be like a barbed-wire fence: serving its purpose without obstructing the view. Sophia Loren 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. 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 When I heard the names of my co-stars I almost passed out…. I, little Sofia Scicolone, was to play opposite two of those romantic figures of my Pozzuoli dreams, in an English-speaking, multi-million dollar spectacle film. Sophia Loren Once I put myself into a thing, I do my utmost, my very, very best. Sophia Loren 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. Sophia Loren For me, it is good to be vulnerable. It makes me nice…weak sometimes, but in a good way, not a tragic way. Sophia Loren To prepare for the part [in Two Women], I opened the sluices of my memory, letting the bombing raids, the nights in the tunnel, the killings, the rapes and starvation and inhumanity wash back over me. I particularly concentrated on my mother as I remembered her during the war, her fears, connivances and sacrifices, and especially the way she fiercely protected us against the scourges of the war. Sophia Loren When I perform with Marcello [Mastroianni], I am the full moon. And he is the ring around me. Sophia Loren 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. 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 After the [1999] Oscars, I received so much mail and so many compliments from friends. It's a wonderful feeling that people like you and have such esteem for you. I'm enchanted that people talk to me this way. It's like winning the lottery. Sophia Loren Your children are not your children. They are the sons and daughters of Life's longing for itself. They come through you but not from you, And though they are with you, and yet they belong not to you. You may give them your love but not your thoughts, For they have their own thoughts. You may house their bodies but not their souls, For their souls dwell in the house of tomorrow, which you cannot visit, not even in your dreams. 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 It is well to give when asked but it is better to give unasked, through understanding. Sophia Loren Life is indeed darkness save when there is urge, And all urge is blind save when there is knowledge, And all knowledge is vain save when there is work, And all work is empty save when there is love. Sophia Loren |
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