Sophia Loren Quotes (Author of Yesterday, Today, Tomorrow) (2024)

“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

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“Beauty is how you feel inside, and it reflects in your eyes. It is not something physical.”
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“Sex appeal is fifty percent what you've got and fifty percent what people think you've got.”
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“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.”
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“A woman's dress should be like a barbed-wire fence: serving its purpose without obstructing the view.”
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“Everything you see I owe to spaghetti.”
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“Nothing makes a woman more beautiful than the belief that she is beautiful.”
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“If you haven't cried, your eyes cannot be beautiful”
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“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.”
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“Mistakes are part of the dues one pays for a full life.”
― Sophia Loren

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“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.
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“When you are a mother, you are never really alone in your thoughts. You are connected to your child and to all those who touch your lives. A mother always has to think twice, once for herself and once for her child.”
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“It's a mistake to think that once you're done with school you need never learn anything new.”
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“Spaghetti can be eaten most successfully if you inhale it like a vacuum cleaner.”
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“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.”
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“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, Women and Beauty

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“Good morning. "Getting ahead in a difficult profession requires avid faith in yourself. That is why some people with mediocre talent, but with the inner drive, go much farther than people with vastly superior talent”
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“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, Women and Beauty

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“I have my own peculiar yardstick for measuring a man: Does he have the courage to cry in a moment of grief? Does he have the compassion not to hunt an animal? In his relationship with a woman, is he gentle? Real manliness is nurtured in kindness and gentleness, which I associate with intelligence, comprehension, tolerance, justice, education, and high morality. If only men realized how easy it is to open a woman's heart with kindness, and how many women close their hearts to the assaults of the Don Juans.”
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“Food makes people happy, it takes you back home, it says so many things that words can’t say.”
― Sophia Loren, Yesterday, Today, Tomorrow: My Life

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“Discipline is the great equalizer. If a young woman is beautiful but has no discipline, she will lose her looks as she grows older. If a plain woman is disciplined she will undoubtedly become more beautiful with time.”
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“You have to believe in marriage and you have to believe in a relationship between two people. If you really think in your life that you have found the right person, you have to stick to it, even though there are ups and downs. If you really believe in your union, you have to nourish it and work for it, then you can really spend your life together forever.”
― Sophia Loren

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“Everything you see I owe to spaghetti”
― Sophia Loren

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“As time passed there was no more buying food, no money, no supplies. On some days, we wouldn’t even have a crumb to eat. There’s a vivid scene in Nanni Loy’s The Four Days of Naples, a movie made after the war about the uprising of the Neapolitans against the occupying Germans, in which one of the young characters sinks his teeth into a loaf of bread so voraciously, so desperately, I can still identify with him. In those four famous days in late September, when Naples rose up against the Germans—even before the Allies arrived, it was the climax of a terrible period of deprivation and marked the beginning of the end of the war in Italy.”
― Sophia Loren, Yesterday, Today, Tomorrow: My Life

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“Emancipationen ville være mere troværdig, hvis den ikke så hyppigt blev repræsenteret af kvinder, der har kommet til kort i kærligheden.”
― Sophia Loren

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“Isn't it wonderful to be alive? You know, you can forget all about it. Then suddenly you remember, and think of all the things you can do. Here I am. I can walk around. I can talk. I can see things and remember things. I am alive. How wonderful.”
― Sophia Loren

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“La fantasia dell'uomo è l'arma migliore della donna.”
― Sophia Loren

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“I lived my life as best I could, hidden behind a thin yet sturdy veil of shyness. Yes, I know it’s hard to believe, but I was really shy, perhaps because of our situation: My father was absent, and my mother was too blond, too tall, too lively, and, above all, unmarried. Her eccentric, excessive beauty embarrassed me. She was a ragazza madre, a girl-mother, as the saying goes. I dreamed of a normal, reassuring mother, with black hair, a creased apron, her hands rough, and her eyes tired—like Mamma Luisa, whom I would find once again a few decades later in A Special Day, a movie in which I play a character named Antonietta, a devoted housewife and mother of six.”
― Sophia Loren, Yesterday, Today, Tomorrow: My Life

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