Sophia Loren Quotes

I'm very susceptible to sex appeal.

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

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.

True happiness is impossible without solitude.... I need solitude in my life as I need food and drink and the laughter of little children. Extravagant though it may sound, solitude is the filter of my soul. It nourishes me, and rejuvenates me. Left alone, I discovered that I keep myself good company.

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

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!

At this moment, everyone is in crisis, not only in Italy but all over Europe. Only in America do they make films that are successful all over the world. In Europe, production is quite poor. We have three or four or five films, which is not enough.

There is a fountain of youth: it is your mind, your talents, the creativity you bring to your life and the lives of the people you love. When you learn to tap this source, you will truly have defeated age.

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.

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

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

i have no regrets. regret only makes wrinkles.

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.

Where youthful beauty is unconscious, mature beauty is knowing and sophisticated.

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.

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.

Good food is a celebration of life.

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

I'm not talking so much about sex - after you've seen sex in a picture, what else can happen - but violence is very bad. People think these are things you are allowed to do. I think they should be forbidden.

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

I can't tell you that I like getting older, but I think I can cope with it because everybody gets older. Sometimes it's a little upsetting because time goes by and you want to do more and you have to accept life for what it is and find some new motivation that gives you drive and enthusiasm.

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.

Believe me, it is actions that count.

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

The right hairstyle can make a plain woman beautiful and a beautiful woman unforgettable.

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.

Sometimes you feel a need to express yourself, and there is no better way than to go to places where people need everything. It's dramatic, it's tragic. You just can't understand why, in the world of today, there are still things like that. The images you see on TV kill you. Of course when you are there (at these trouble spots) you can't turn off the TV. You are face-to-face with reality.

I am against all war.

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

I wake up very early every morning and I have my coffee at 6:30. If it comes at 6:35, I'm very upset. I don't say anything but I'm upset because I'm so punctual in doing things, that if I lose five minutes I have to rush everything.

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.

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

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

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

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

Everything you see I owe to spaghetti.

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

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

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.

If you don't have the roots somewhere, it's very difficult for people to work with you. Because you are a different person from them. They don't know you, really. They don't know how you feel.

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.

I am lucky. I had a very beautiful mother.