Top 90 Sophia Loren Quotes (2025 Update)

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

— Sophia Loren

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

— Sophia Loren

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3. “Many people think they want things, but they don’t really have the strength, the discipline. They are weak. I believe that you get what you want if you want it badly enough.”

— Sophia Loren

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4. “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

5. “You do not become a star, you are born a star. A star is born with that indefinable extra something.”

— Sophia Loren

6. “If you haven’t cried, your eyes can’t be beautiful.”

— Sophia Loren

7. “I’d much rather eat pasta and drink wine than be a size 0.”

— Sophia Loren

8. “I believe that rewards in life are deserved. Every reward is the fruit of discipline, of dedication and of sacrifices. And of stubbornness.”

— Sophia Loren

9. “My philosophy is that it’s better to explore life and make mistakes than to play it safe and not to explore at all.”

— Sophia Loren

10. “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.”

— Sophia Loren

11. “I have never judged myself by other people’s standards. I have always expected a great deal of myself, and if I fail, I fail myself.”

— Sophia Loren

12. “Good food is a celebration of life.”

— Sophia Loren

13. “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

14. “I still don’t know what I want to do when I grow up.”

— Sophia Loren

15. “Mistakes are the price of an interesting life.”

— Sophia Loren

16. “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.”

— Sophia Loren

17. “Everything you see I owe to spaghetti.”

— Sophia Loren

18. “Cooking is an act of love, a gift, a way of sharing with others the little secrets – ‘piccoli segreti’ – that are simmering on the burners.”

— Sophia Loren

19. “I’m not Italian, I am Neapolitan! It’s another thing!”

— Sophia Loren

20. “Any woman can look her best if she feels good in her skin. It’s not a question of clothes or makeup. It’s how she sparkles.”

— Sophia Loren

21. “I am against all war.”

— Sophia Loren

22. “Being beautiful can never hurt, but you have to have more. You have to sparkle, you have to be fun, you have to make your brain work if you have one.”

— Sophia Loren

23. “It’s a mistake to think that once you’re done with school you need never learn anything new.”

— Sophia Loren

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

— Sophia Loren

25. “I am lucky. I had a very beautiful mother.”

— Sophia Loren

26. “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.”

— Sophia Loren

27. “A dog is faithful, a woman never.”

— Sophia Loren

28. “Once I put myself into a thing, I do my utmost, my very, very best.”

— Sophia Loren

29. “Transformation is something I cannot explain – too much analysis might destroy it.”

— Sophia Loren

30. “I can’t bear being seen naked. I’m not exactly a tiny woman. When Sophia Loren is naked, this is a lot of nakedness.”

— Sophia Loren

31. “The first woman was created from the rib of a man. She was not made from his head to top him, nor from his feet to be trampled on by him, but out of his side to be equal to him.”

— Sophia Loren

32. “I know how to say ‘no’ in twelve languages. That’s enough for a woman.”

— Sophia Loren

33. “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.”

— Sophia Loren

34. “Food makes people happy, it takes you back home, it says so many things that words can’t say.”

— Sophia Loren

35. “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.”

— Sophia Loren

36. “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.”

— Sophia Loren

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

— Sophia Loren

38. “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.”

— Sophia Loren

39. “The right hairstyle can make a plain woman beautiful and a beautiful woman unforgettable.”

— Sophia Loren

40. “There is no greater love potion than regular coffee, brewed his own. When a man tries it, he was not going anywhere.”

— Sophia Loren

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

— Sophia Loren

42. “I exist only because inside of me and above all else I am only and above all a Neapolitan. Naples exists inside of me, and always will. Fortunately for me there is this treasure that I have inside of me and, when I need it, then I pull it out.”

— Sophia Loren

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

— Sophia Loren

44. “I do not know if I really am a big star. And in fact that is not the most important thing for me. What counts in life is to bring about more of your own dreams. In such a way that your life becomes like a fairy tale. This is what has happened to me, it is just like that.”

— Sophia Loren

45. “Beauty is how you feel inside...”

— Sophia Loren

46. “I eat a lot of salad, a little meat, and some fruit – that’s all. But I like sweets.”

— Sophia Loren

47. “Hate is unfulfilled love.”

— Sophia Loren

48. “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.”

— Sophia Loren

49. “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

50. “The girl who swears no one has ever made love to her has a right to swear.”

— Sophia Loren