Sophia Loren Quotes

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

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.

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

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

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

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

Hate is unfulfilled love.

Sometimes when you involve yourself in so many things, you can't do any of them well - and I like to do everything perfectly.

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.

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.

I was not interested in what I could bring to myself by being an actress, but in what I could bring out of myself.

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

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.

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.

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

It is very important for an actor or actress to look around at everything and everyone and never forget about real life.

When you find yourself a mom, you will be by no means seriously by itself with your ideas. A mother usually should think twice, once for herself and once for her boy or girl.

Men always marry younger girls, but sometimes when a women who's very mature marries a younger man, she's criticized. It needs to be corrected.

Almost starve, but I don’t starve because I eat very much

I always try to have a vacation.

Until you lose your mother you don't know what it is.

Physical exercise makes you more graceful. After some gymnasitics you walk as if the whole street is yours.

Everything you live through helps to make you the person you are now.

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.

I don't like to go in places where women talk and gossip. The atmosphere I don't like, even though you can sometimes meet nice people. For me, it's a waste of time.

For me, it is good to be vulnerable. It makes me nice... weak sometimes, but in a good way, not a tragic way.

I am against all war.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

The Fountain of Youth is in your mind.

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

I don't believe in anti-aging creams. I believe the skin should be clean, should be nourished, but most of all you should eat the right things.

I have to say that since my mother died, I am not the same person anymore. My life has changed a great deal because it's really unbearable to think you can't see her anymore or talk to her anymore.

I can cook, I can breathe, I can live!

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

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.

A dog is faithful, a woman never.

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

Film is just a mirror of the society we live in.

A mother always thinks twice: for herself and for the child

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

I don't go for films that exalt violence. I don't want them in my house. Sometimes my children see them. But nowadays they do it so truthfully and with so much passion that you are shocked.

I work when I feel like I can do something that pleases me, that I think I can give a little more than I've given up to yesterday.

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

I'm an actress. It's my passion.

[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.