SOPHIA LOREN

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 always try to have a vacation.

I am lucky. I had a very beautiful mother.

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.

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

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

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 am against all war.

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

A mother has to think twice, once for herself and once for her child.

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.

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

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.

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

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

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.