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

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

Sophia Loren

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.

Sophia Loren

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

Sophia Loren

I am lucky. I had a very beautiful mother.

Sophia Loren

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.

Sophia Loren

I'm an actress. It's my passion.

Sophia Loren

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

Sophia Loren

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

Sophia Loren

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

Sophia Loren

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

Sophia Loren

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

Sophia Loren

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.

Sophia Loren

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

Sophia Loren

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.

Sophia Loren

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

Sophia Loren

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.

Sophia Loren

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.

Sophia Loren

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

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.

Sophia Loren

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.

Sophia Loren

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

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