Quotes from Sophia Loren

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

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

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.

I am lucky. I had a very beautiful mother.

Without my mother's ambition, her drive, I doubt that on my own I would have pushed myself out of Pozzuoli and into the frightening world that was faraway Rome.

My mother was so beautiful, she really was a a wonderful person. Always walking like a queen. Like she owned the world. Maybe I took something from her.

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

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

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 still like me, inside and out. Not in a vain way - I just feel good in my skin.

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

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

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.

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.

You can always dream. Life is full of dreams that you can fulfill.

Mistakes are the price of an interesting life.

Good food is a celebration of life.

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

I believe that rewards in life are deserved. Every reward is the fruit of discipline, of dedication and of sacrifices. And of stubbornness.

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.

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

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 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.