Sophia Loren

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

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.

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

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

Sex appeal is 50% what you've got and 50% what people think you've got.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

I'd much rather eat pasta and drink wine than be a size 0.

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

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 have truly defeated age.

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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

If you havent cried your eyes cant be beautiful.

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

A womans dress should be a like a barbed wire fence serving its purpose without obstructing the view.

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

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

I am against all war.

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 to your life and the lives of the people you love. When you learn to tap this source, you will truly have defeated age.

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.

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."

Jealousy is a miserable feeling. It means you aspire to something that you cannot have.

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

A womans dress should be like a barbed wire fence serving its purpose without obstructing the view.

I am lucky. I had a very beautiful mother.

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

A mother always thinks twice: for herself and for the child

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.

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.

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.

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

Everything you see I owe to spaghetti.

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

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

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._

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