Sophia Loren quotes

Sophia Loren is an Italian actress and international film icon, celebrated for her beauty and talent. With a career spanning over six decades, she starred in numerous acclaimed films and won many prestigious awards, including an Academy Award. She continues to inspire generations with her enduring elegance and remarkable achievements. Here are 63 of her quotes:

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

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

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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.

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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.

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Everything you see I owe to spaghetti.

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

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

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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.

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

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

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

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Mistakes are a part of the dues one pays for a full life.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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

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

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My mother taught me the most important principles, to be determined in life, to be disciplined, to be able to understand that there are some things that you can't do and other things you have to do, that you always have to be surrounded by love, that you have to be understanding.

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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.

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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.

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

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