Loren Sophia 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

Food makes people happy, it takes you back home, it says so many things that words can't say. — 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

I've always been really drawn to that kind of sexual earthiness in European women, and Sophia Loren covered all the bases, including the whole mummy fantasy. — Simon Baker

What would you do in order to marry Sophia Loren? I think anyone would become French to marry Sophia Loren. Love was more important than nationality. The cultural heritage of that country and my parents is so interlaced that it really doesn't matter that a piece of paper tells them they're French. — Edoardo Ponti

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

I never want to lie about my age. If I look around at the actresses I admire, they are all women who have not fought growing older, but embraced it and been proud of it - women like Sophia Loren or Audrey Hepburn. — Penelope Cruz

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

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

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

I liked the Hollywood stuff. But I also liked the fact that in both, you know, I guess in the, like, the auteur, the art film auteur at that time was Lina Wertmuller. So, you go see "Swept Away" or you go see a movie she did "Blood Feud" with Sophia Loren and Giancarlo Giannini. And I remember "Wifemistress" was a big movie at that time, really liked it, Laura Antonelli. — Quentin Tarantino

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

Sophia Loren said, Beauty is how you feel inside, and it reflects in your eyes. It is not something physical. — Sherry Argov

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

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

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

Good food is a celebration of life. — Sophia Loren

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

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

Mistakes are the price of an interesting life. — Sophia Loren

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

Beauty is how you feel inside ... — 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

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. — 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 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

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

It's a mistake to think that once you're done with school you need never learn anything new. — 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

As for Aliki - if you were to stand in the middle of Rome and say the name Sophia Loren, or Paris and say the name Catherine Deneuve or Brigitte Bardot, or L.A. and the name Marilyn Monroe, it's like standing in Athens, or anywhere in wide-flung Greece, and saying Aliki Vougiouklaki. A huge star - and so little known elsewhere in the world. — Ali Smith

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

I believe that rewards in life are deserved. Every reward is the fruit of discipline, of dedication and of sacrifices. And of stubbornness. — Sophia Loren

I firmly believe we can make our own miracles if we believe strongly enough in ourselves and our mission on earth. — Sophia Loren

Sophia Loren is the embodiment of what a woman should be
the epitome of femaleness. Most of the young people today are just ironing boards. — Rona Barrett

Sex appeal is 50% what you've got and 50% what people think you've got. — Sophia Loren

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

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

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

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

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

The best thing about it is that she [Sophia Loren] is the most normal person, and I have the utmost admiration and love for her. I know that she is an icon and an absolute legend, but as a family member, the most beautiful thing is that she is really, really normal. — Sasha Alexander

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

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.' — 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'm very susceptible to sex appeal. — 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

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

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

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

The fantasy of a man is the best weapon of a woman. — Sophia Loren

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

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

My mother was a famous photographer for actresses, including Sophia Loren, Gina Lollobrigida, and so many. I remember I went to school close to my mother's studio, and for years, I went to the studio after school and just watched how she captured these beauties. — Dario Argento

The Fountain of Youth is in your mind. — 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

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

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

Certainly there are dozens of over-50 actresses who look great: Sophia Loren, Susan Sarandon, Ursula Andress, Stefanie Powers, Raquel Welch, Barbara Eden, Joanna Lumley, Linda Gray - the list is endless, and these are just the actresses! I have many friends in their 60s, 70s and 80s, not in the limelight, but who all look absolutely stunning. — Joan Collins

[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

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

I had fewer female clients. I don't know why. It was always the men who chose me. And the ones whose secrets I had to hold. I represented Sophia Loren. She was jailed in Caserta for 17 days. — Giovanna Cau

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

I know if I were in your generation I would be really tired of seeing Sophia Loren as a sex object. — Katherine Dunn

As a kid I had a crush on Sophia Loren and Raquel Welch. — Judd Nelson

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

Who is the beauty icon that inspires you the most? Is it Sophia Loren? Audrey Hepburn? Halle Berry? Mine is Nosferatu, because that vampire taught me my number-one and number-two favorite beauty tricks of all time: avoid the sun at all costs and always try to appear shrouded in shadows. — Mindy Kaling

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

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

Anna Magnani, Sophia Loren, Meryl Streep - I love actresses that are strong and fragile at the same time. They bring complexity to their roles. — Moran Atias

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

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

Sophia Loren would be a glamour girl even if she were in rags selling fish. She has the look, the movement and the intellect. — Hedy Lamarr

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

Sophia Loren is not a citizen. — Phil Gramm

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

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

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