Sophia Loren Quotes

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.

I do 45 minutes a day of stretching and abdominals and I lift light weights of half a kilo. Otherwise, if you strain your muscles, then you have to be quiet and stay without any exercise for a long time. I do heavier weights gradually. I'm going to become Superwoman with oil on my muscles!

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

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

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.

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

I think for the women of today, because we work and go around a lot, Armani is ideal - simple and elegant at the same time. It's not eccentric, and everything he does is very subtle. For the evening, I like Gianfranco Ferre. There's a lot of fantasy and creativity in his clothes.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

The mirror of your health is your skin. If you drink, it shows in your face; if you eat the wrong foods, you have pimples. If you take care of your food and you lead a healthy life, your skin will look wonderful.

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

The fantasy of a man is the best weapon of a woman.

The Fountain of Youth is in your mind.

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

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.

[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.

Hate is unfulfilled love.

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.

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.'

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.

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.

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.

Getting ahead in a difficult profession requires avid faith in yourself.

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

You can always dream. Life is full of dreams that you can fulfill.

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

A dog is faithful, a woman never.

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

Learn to use your brains as deftly as your powder box, and then, perhaps, powder box you will not need ... Know smart women men say beautiful - eyes snatched from the crowd and do not forget just charming.

I think the quality of sexiness comes from within.

Being an actress, you are accustomed to learn to do so many things... You learn how to dry your hair, curl your hair and do your nails. Sometimes, just for fun, I have someone come in to do my nails, but I like to do them three times a week. If I went out to have them done, then I would spend my life at the hairdresser's and that I can't afford.