Quotes from Sophia Loren

It's necessary to have an energy that carries you forward. You need the will to live, to have a great curiosity. To look for the best in life, to find new interests.

It is very important for an actor or actress to look around at everything and everyone and never forget about real life.

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.

Success, I would find out, is interior. It has to do with self-fulfillment and the joy of living.

It [winning Oscar] is the most important event in the career of an actor, an extraordinary moment, beautiful. Some people live their whole life just to win an Oscar.

I have to say that since my mother died, I am not the same person anymore. My life has changed a great deal because it's really unbearable to think you can't see her anymore or talk to her anymore.

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.

I don't like to go in places where women talk and gossip. The atmosphere I don't like, even though you can sometimes meet nice people. For me, it's a waste of 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.

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

Jealousy is a miserable feeling. It means you aspire to something that you cannot have. Even in love, it is better to leave, better not to waste time.

Cooking is an act of love, a gift, a way of sharing with others the little secrets -- 'piccoli segreti' -- that are simmering on the burners.

Hate is unfulfilled love.

The girl who swears no one has ever made love to her has a right to swear.

True love comes along after adolescence, when we have learned not to cry for nothing.

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.

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

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.

There is a fountain of youth: It is your mind, your talents, the creativity you bring in your life and the lives of people you love

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 much further than people with vastly superior talent.

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

I am against all war.