Quotes by Sophia Loren

“If you havent cried, your eyes cant be beautiful.”

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

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

“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.”

“After all these years, I am still involved in the process of self-discovery. Its 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 think the quality of sexiness comes from within. It is something that is in you or it isnt and it really doesnt have much to do with breasts or thighs or the pout of your lips.”

“You have to be born a sex symbol. You dont become one. If youre born with it, youll have it even when youre 100 years old.”

“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.”

“Everything you see I owe to spaghetti.”

“The facts of life are that a child who has seen war cannot be compared with a child who doesnt know what war is except from television.”

“Im a giraffe. I even walk like a giraffe with a long neck and legs. Its a pretty dumb animal, mind you.”

“No press conference announcing a last film. Id 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, Ive thought it over and decided to come back.”

“I want everything - all of it,”

“I am against all war.”

“She made it like a joke. She made it sound like it was really nothing and tomorrow it was going to pass,”

“Getting ahead in a difficult profession requires avid faith in yourself. You must be able to sustain yourself against staggering blows. There is no code of conduct to help beginners. That is why some people with mediocre talent, but with great inner drive, go much further than people with vastly superior talent.”

“Timeless. Has she ever looked better?”

“I cant bear being seen naked. Im not exactly a tiny woman. When”

“Its a mistake to think that once youre done with school you need never learn anything new.”

“I was so skinny, they gave me the nickname stechetto - the stick. I was tall, thin, ugly and dark like an Arab girl. I looked strange. All eyes. No flesh on my bones.”