Sophia Loren Quotes

It's a shallow life that doesn't give a person a few scars.

I'm not interested in nostalgia; I'm interested in who I am.

Sure, I'm ashamed of a lot of the things I did, but at the same time, I wouldn't be the person I am today if I hadn't gone through those experiences.

I wouldn't change anything. I've made mistakes, but thanks to those mistakes, I've learned.

I'm not the kind of person to sit and dwell for ages on something that happened. I go through something, I experience it, I try to learn from it, and I move forward.

I can't change the past. It made me what I am.

I don't think you learn as much about yourself when you are moving forwards as when you have fallen backwards. That's when you really learn who you are. And reach for the things that have propelled you forward and made you a better person.

I went through so many things personally, emotionally and mentally during that time off that I know that I'm better for it now and I think I'm a better athlete because of that.

I don't regret what I've been through. I've had ups and downs, super highs and some really low lows. I've been so blessed that I could never say, 'I wish this didn't happen.' It's part of who I am. There's nothing in my life that's so ugh.

One wouldn't want to have the same dilemmas at 50 as one had at 15. And indeed I don't. I have a very different take on life.

I believe my past is my strength.

You can't start changing things in your past. Everyone has challenges and lessons to learn - we wouldn't be who we are without them. I certainly wouldn't be who I am.

By the time you're 30, you know who you are inside. You learn to laugh at things you can't change; you learn to be yourself.

I don't have many regrets. I regret mistakes, particularly those that damage other people, and we've all made some of those. But I'm not sad about change.

When we are no longer able to change a situation - we are challenged to change ourselves.

I've been through some very difficult stages in my life, but I wouldn't change anything.

I would have thought that I would have become one of those parents - just because it's my nature to be such a perfectionist - that anything falling short, I would have seen as a failure. But something has happened to me over the past few years - it's not Zen, believe me, I'm not at all Zen - but I'm so appreciative of even the chaos.

There is nothing I've been through in my life that I regret, or that I would go back and change. I feel like everything that happened - personally and professionally - I went through for a reason, and I learned from those things.

You have good days, you have bad days. But the main thing is to grow mentally.

There is a fine balance between honoring the past and losing yourself in it. For example, you can acknowledge and learn from mistakes you made, and then move on and refocus on the now. It is called forgiving yourself.

Life experience brings out different emotions and different perspectives on things. I just want to be constantly evolving.

Every experience makes you a man.

History, despite its wrenching pain, cannot be unlived, but if faced with courage, need not be lived again.

Yes, years of compromise and disappointment have added depth to my acting.

Everything that has happened to me is of value to me. As painful as certain things are, and have been, and were, there's a use for those things in my life and in my work.