Sophia Loren Quotes

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.

I always try to have a vacation.

I am against all war.

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.

I walk, walk, walk, walk. That’s very good for your heart.

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

I am lucky. I had a very beautiful mother.

I’m an actress. It’s my passion. It’s – I’ve always lived for acting.

I’m sick when I don’t work for year or two.

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

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.

Everything you see I owe to spaghetti.

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.’

I’m a giraffe. I even walk like a giraffe with a long neck and legs. It’s a pretty dumb animal, mind you.

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.

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

Beauty is how you feel inside, and it reflects in your eyes. It is not something physical.

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.

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.

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.

I’m a very shy person, and I never tried to do theater. I’ve been asked many, many times by the most incredible authors in America to do theater. And I always said no, not knowing what it is to be on the stage and to do theater.

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

A woman‘s dress should be like a barbed-wire fence: serving its purpose without obstructing the view.

Be careful about what you eat because otherwise you get fat! Do you like to be fat? Eat very, very, very little things. Almost starve, but I don’t starve, because I eat very much.

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.