Sophia Loren quotes talk about her and what she thinks about life and love to do. Her quotes are more focused on her body and she loves spaghetti. Loren believes that she is still discovering who she is. She has been ab actress for a long time, leading the way for actresses like Jennifer Lopez and Jennifer Aniston who have done many films themselves in more modern times.
Sophia Loren’s real name, Sofia Villani Scicolone Dame Grand Cross OMRI is an Italian actress who starred in many films. Her career began in 1950 when she was still a teenager. She met former American President Ronald Reagan at the White House along with a host of other celebrities in 1981. Below are a number of her quotes.
Quote #1 "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.” |
Quote #2 “Beauty is how you feel inside, and it reflects in your eyes. It is not something physical.” |
Quote #3 “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.” |
Quote #4 “Sex appeal is fifty percent what you've got and fifty percent what people think you've got.” |
Quote #5 “The two big advantages I had at birth were to have been born wise and to have been born in poverty.” |
Quote #6 “I'm a very shy person and I never tried to do theater.” |
Quote #7 “I eat a lot of salad, a little meat, and some fruit. That's all. But I like sweets.” |
Quote #8 “You cannot say, because I am from Naples so I like the mixture of drama and comedy all together.” |
Quote #9 “It is a great advantage for a system of philosophy to be substantially true.” |
Quote #10 “Everything you see I owe to spaghetti.” |
Quote #11 “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.” |
Quote #12 “Nothing makes a woman more beautiful than the belief that she is beautiful.” |
Quote #13 “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.” |
Quote #14 “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.” |
Quote #15 “I'm sick when I don't work for year or two.” |
Quote #16 “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.” |
Quote #17 “If you haven't cried, your eyes cannot be beautiful.” |
Quote #18 “I am lucky. I had a very beautiful mother.” |
Quote #19 “I walk, walk, walk, walk. That's very good for your heart.” |
Quote #20 “Mistakes are part of the dues one pays for a full life.” |
Quote #21 “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.” |
Quote #22 “I'm an actress. It's my passion. It's - I've always lived for acting.” |
Quote #23 “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.'” |
Quote #24 “I am against all war.” |
Quote #25 “It's a mistake to think that once you're done with school you need never learn anything new.” |
Quote #26 “I always try to have a vacation.” |
Quote #27 “Spaghetti can be eaten most successfully if you inhale it like a vacuum cleaner.” |
Quote #28 "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." |
Quote #29 "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." |
Quote #30 "I'm an actress. It's my passion." |
Quote #31 "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." |
Quote #32 "A mother has to think twice, once for herself and once for her child." |
Quote #33 "Mistakes are a part of the dues one pays for a full life." |
Quote #34 "I'm a giraffe. I even walk like a giraffe with a long neck and legs. It's a pretty dumb animal, mind you." |
Quote #35 "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." |
Quote #36 "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." |
Sophia Loren quotes are from a woman who considered herself eyecatching and allowed her beauty to take her places. She was a well-known actress in her day and was due to make another film in recent times that will be shown on Netflix. I hope something she said will inspire all to live fulfilled lives.