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Sophia Loren is a world-renowned Italian actress and singer Born on September 20th, 1934. She has been involved in many movies, including The Secret of the Nile, Black Cat, etc. Her iconic status is renowned worldwide. In August 2014, she turned eighty-five years old and became the oldest person to win an Oscar.
Sophia Loren’s acting career started at a young age when her father insisted on taking her with him to auditions. She was discovered while still in school and immediately got modeling contracts. Her career took off after her debut film ‘Lorenzaccio’ in 1953 when she met Vittorio De Sica, who directed many of her films until the 1990s.
Sophia Loren is one of the most famous actresses in Hollywood and has been nominated for five Academy Awards for Best Actress, six Golden Globes, and three BAFTAs.
Check out her most famous and inspirational quotes that will change your life goals and make you a better person.
35 Most Inspiring Sophia Loren Quotes
“The two big advantages I had at birth were to have been born wise and to have been born in poverty.”
“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.”
“A dog is faithful, a woman never.”
“Physical exercise makes you more graceful. After some gymnasitics you walk as if the whole street is yours.”
“If you haven’t cried, your eyes cannot be beautiful.”
“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.”
“I always try to have a vacation.”
“Everything you live through helps to make you the person you are now.”
“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.”
“If you can learn to use your mind as well as your powder puff, you will become more truly beautiful.”
“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.”
“It’s a mistake to think that once you’re done with school you need never learn anything new.”
“A woman’s dress should be like a barbed-wire fence: serving its purpose without obstructing the view.”
“At the dressing table, every woman has a chance to be an artist, and art, as Aristotle said, ‘completes what nature left unfinished.’”
“Everything you see I owe to spaghetti.”
“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.”
“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.”
“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.”
“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.”
“Sex appeal is fifty percent what you’ve got and fifty percent what people think you’ve got.”
“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.”
“Transformation is something I cannot explain – too much analysis might destroy it.”
“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 believe that you get what you want if you want it badly enough.”
“It’s a mistake to think that once you’re done with school you need never learn anything new.”
“Real manliness is nurtured in kindness and gentleness, which I associate with intelligence, comprehension, tolerance, justice, education, and high morality.”
“Discipline is the great equalizer. If a young woman is beautiful but has no discipline, she will lose her looks as she grows older. If a plain woman is disciplined she will undoubtedly become more beautiful with time.”
“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.”
“Nothing makes a woman more beautiful than the belief that she is beautiful.”
“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.”
“Beauty is how you feel inside, and it reflects in your eyes. It is not something physical.”
“If you really believe in your union, you have to nourish it and work for it, then you can really spend your life together forever.”
“Mistakes are a part of the dues one pays for a full life.”
“The right hairstyle can make a plain woman beautiful and a beautiful woman unforgettable.”
“It is a great advantage for a system of philosophy to be substantially true.”
