Quotes by Sophia Loren

About Sophia Loren:

Sophia Loren is an Italian film actress. She began her career at age 14 after entering a beauty pageant in 1949. Encouraged to enroll in acting lessons, Loren appeared in several bit parts and minor roles until the late 1950s when Loren's five-picture contract with Paramount launched her international career. Notable film appearances around this time include Houseboat, That Kind of Woman, and It Started in Naples.
A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z

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.

Sophia Loren

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.

Sophia Loren

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.

Sophia Loren

At the dressing table, every woman has a chance to be an artist, and art, as Aristotle said, "completes what nature left unfinished.

Sophia Loren

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.

Sophia Loren

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.'

Sophia Loren

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

Sophia Loren

Everything you see I owe to spaghetti.

Sophia Loren

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

Sophia Loren

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

Sophia Loren

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

Sophia Loren

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.

Sophia Loren

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

Sophia Loren

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.

Sophia Loren

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.

Sophia Loren

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

Sophia Loren

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

Sophia Loren

I always try to have a vacation.

Sophia Loren

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

Sophia Loren

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

Sophia Loren

Author Bio

  • NameSophia Loren
  • DescriptionItalian actress
  • AliasesSofia Scicolone; Sofia Lazzaro
  • BornSeptember 20, 1934
  • CountryItaly
  • ProfessionActor; Model; Singer; Autobiographer
  • AwardsAcademy Award For Best Actress; Praemium Imperiale