Top 152 Quotes & Sayings by Sophia Loren

Everything you see I owe to spaghetti.

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.

It's a mistake to think that once you're done with school you need never learn anything new.

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.

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.

Many people think they want things, but they don't really have the strength, the discipline. They are weak. I believe that you get what you want if you want it badly enough.

I am lucky. I had a very beautiful mother.

It is a great advantage for a system of philosophy to be substantially true.

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 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.

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

I am against all war.

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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 an actress. It's my passion.

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

A mother has to think twice, once for herself and once for her child.

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.

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.

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.

I always try to have a vacation.

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.

I'm an actress. It's my passion. It's - I've always lived for acting.

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

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

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

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.

Mistakes are the price of an interesting life.

Good food is a celebration of life.

i have no regrets. regret only makes wrinkles.

When I'm walking along in the street, I always feel that around the corner,there is something wonderful waiting for me. That's my attitude.

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.

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

I'm very susceptible to sex appeal.

I know how to say 'no' in twelve languages. That's enough for a woman.

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

You really have to be satisfied with what you are and accept from life what it still very generously offers you - and notice it, and be glad for it.

I still don't know what I want to do when I grow up.

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

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.

I have my own peculiar yardstick for measuring a man: Does he have the courage to cry in a moment of grief? Does he have the compassion not to hunt an animal? In his relationship with a woman, is he gentle? Real manliness is nurtured in kindness and gentleness, which I associate with intelligence, comprehension, tolerance, justice, education, and high morality. If only men realized how easy it is to open a woman's heart with kindness, and how many women close their hearts to the assaults of the Don Juans.

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

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'd much rather eat pasta and drink wine than be a size 0.

I think what you have inside reflects very much in your face, in your expression. If you can find a kind of equilibrium in life, you never really get old, because you have that kind of ingenuity and innocence inside that gives you that brightness and that glint in your eye that generally, getting older, you lose.