Sophia Loren Quotes & Sayings

I still don't know what I want to do when I grow up. — Sophia Loren

I'm a giraffe. I even walk like a giraffe with a long neck and legs. It's a pretty dumb animal, mind you. — Sophia Loren

I always try to have a vacation. — Sophia Loren

I can cook, I can breathe, I can live! — Sophia Loren

I hated my father all my life but in his final days I forgave him for all the suffering he caused us. As you grow older, marry, and have children of you own, you learn and forget. I do not forget easily, but I do forgive. — Sophia Loren

A mother always thinks twice: for herself and for the child — Sophia Loren

Everything you see I owe to spaghetti. — Sophia Loren

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

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. — Sophia Loren

It's necessary to have an energy that carries you forward. You need the will to live, to have a great curiosity. To look for the best in life, to find new interests. — Sophia Loren

If you haven't cried, your eyes cannot be beautiful — Sophia Loren

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

When you are a mother, you are never really alone in your thoughts. You are connected to your child and to all those who touch your lives. A mother always has to think twice, once for herself and once for her child. — Sophia Loren

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. — Sophia Loren

It is a great advantage for a system of philosophy to be substantially true. — Sophia Loren

And as I walk round the park I always think, 'Maybe round the corner I am going to find something beautiful.' I always think positively. It is very rare that you find me in a mood that is sad or melancholic, — Sophia Loren

You cannot say, because I am from Naples so I like the mixture of drama and comedy all together. — Sophia Loren

Once I put myself into a thing, I do my utmost, my very, very best. — Sophia Loren

At the dressing table, every woman has a chance to be an artist, and art, as Aristotle said, completes what nature left unfinished. — Sophia Loren

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

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! — Sophia Loren

Discipline is the great equalizer. If a young woman is beautiful but has no discipline, she will lose her looks as she grows older. If a plain woman is disciplined she will undoubtedly become more beautiful with time. — Sophia Loren

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. — 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

My mother taught me to walk proud and tall 'as if the world was mine.' — Sophia Loren

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. — Sophia Loren

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. — Sophia Loren

I exist only because inside of me and above all else I am only and above all a Neapolitan. Naples exists inside of me, and always will. Fortunately for me there is this treasure that I have inside of me and, when I need it, then I pull it out. — 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

Beauty is how you feel inside ... — Sophia Loren

You have to believe in marriage and you have to believe in a relationship between two people. If you really think in your life that you have found the right person, you have to stick to it, even though there are ups and downs. If you really believe in your union, you have to nourish it and work for it, then you can really spend your life together forever. — Sophia Loren

The Fountain of Youth is in your mind. — Sophia Loren

Success, I would find out, is interior. It has to do with self-fulfillment and the joy of living. — Sophia Loren

Ignorance has its virtues; without it there'd be mighty little conversation. — Sophia Loren

I can't bear being seen naked. I'm not exactly a tiny woman. When Sophia Loren is naked, this is a lot of nakedness. — 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. So failure or reversal does not bring out resentment in me because I cannot blame others for any misfortune that befalls me. — Sophia Loren

I know how to say 'no' in twelve languages. That's enough for a woman. — Sophia Loren

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

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

As far as beauty is concerned, in order to be confident we must accept that the way we look and feel is our own responsibility. — Sophia Loren

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. — Sophia Loren

I have no regrets. regret only makes wrinkles. — Sophia Loren

Hate is unfulfilled love. — 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. — Sophia Loren

every opportunity is a big opportunity, — Sophia Loren

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

There is no greater love potion than regular coffee, brewed his own. When a man tries it, he was not going anywhere. — Sophia Loren

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

Show business is what I do, not what I am. — 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

Transformation is something I cannot explain - too much analysis might destroy it. — Sophia Loren

I am lucky. I had a very beautiful mother. — Sophia Loren

The girl who swears no one has ever made love to her has a right to swear. — Sophia Loren

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. — Sophia Loren

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. — Sophia Loren

I was born wise. Street-wise, people-wise, self-wise. This wisdom was my birthright. — Sophia Loren

Learn to use your brains as deftly as your powder box, and then maybe you have a powder box and do not need ... — Sophia Loren

The most indespensible ingredient of all good home cooking: love for those you are cooking for. — Sophia Loren

The eyes of a woman who never cried can not be beautiful. — Sophia Loren

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

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. — Sophia Loren

It [winning Oscar] is the most important event in the career of an actor, an extraordinary moment, beautiful. Some people live their whole life just to win an Oscar. — 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

I'm not Italian, I am Neapolitan! It's another thing! — Sophia Loren

Believe me, it is actions that count. — Sophia Loren

As time passed there was no more buying food, no money, no supplies. On some days, we wouldn't even have a crumb to eat. There's a vivid scene in Nanni Loy's The Four Days of Naples, a movie made after the war about the uprising of the Neapolitans against the occupying Germans, in which one of the young characters sinks his teeth into a loaf of bread so voraciously, so desperately, I can still identify with him. In those four famous days in late September, when Naples rose up against the Germans - even before the Allies arrived, it was the climax of a terrible period of deprivation and marked the beginning of the end of the war in Italy. — Sophia Loren

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. — Sophia Loren

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. — Sophia Loren

Cooking is an act of love, a gift, a way of sharing with others the little secrets
'piccoli segreti'
that are simmering on the burners. — Sophia Loren

There is no better love potion than a coffee. When a man drinks the coffee made by you he will become forever yours. — Sophia Loren

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. — 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 so much further than people with vastly superior talent.
— Sophia Loren

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. — Sophia Loren

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

I was so skinny, they gave me the nickname stechetto - the stick. I was tall, thin, ugly and dark like an Arab girl. I looked strange. All eyes. No flesh on my bones. — Sophia Loren

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. — Sophia Loren

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. — Sophia Loren

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

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

My philosophy is that it's better to explore life and make mistakes than to play it safe and not to explore at all. — Sophia Loren

Beauty is no handicap if you don't think about it. — Sophia Loren

Where youthful beauty is unconscious, mature beauty is knowing and sophisticated. — Sophia Loren

I still like me, inside and out. Not in a vain way - I just feel good in my skin. — Sophia Loren

A dog is faithful, a woman never. — 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

You do not become a star, you are born a star. A star is born with that indefinable extra something. — Sophia Loren

True love comes along after adolescence, when we have learned not to cry for nothing. — Sophia Loren

Good food is a celebration of life. — Sophia Loren

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

I'm very susceptible to sex appeal. — Sophia Loren

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

I'm an actress. It's my passion. — Sophia Loren

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

Luck assists fortune, you need to catch the moment. Otherwise the opportunity fades. — 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

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

Beauty is in you and is reflected in your eyes. It is not material. — 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

[William] Klein has eyes like a knife. He is ruthless and outrageous but never mean - he is tender and funny and violent - and, I'm sure, really in love with our crazy Rome. — Sophia Loren