Top 90 Sophia Loren Quotes (2025 Update)
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51. “Physical exercise makes you more graceful. After some gymnasitics you walk as if the whole street is yours.”

— Sophia Loren

52. “I firmly believe we can make our own miracles if we believe strongly enough in ourselves and our mission on earth.”

— Sophia Loren

53. “True love comes along after adolescence, when we have learned not to cry for nothing.”

— Sophia Loren

54. “A mother always thinks twice: for herself and for the child.”

— Sophia Loren

55. “As far as beauty is concerned, in order to be confident we must accept that the way we look and feel is our own responsibility.”

— Sophia Loren

56. “Jealousy is a miserable feeling. It means you aspire to something that you cannot have. Even in love, it is better to leave, better not to waste time.”

— Sophia Loren

57. “Be honest about what you can get. To make a sacrifice and to get what you want you need to be very certain. In other words: always think about your objective, have a clear goal and commit to it from the heart.”

— Sophia Loren

58. “The eyes of a woman who never cried can not be beautiful.”

— Sophia Loren

59. “I can cook, I can breathe, I can live!”

— Sophia Loren

60. “Everything you live through helps to make you the person you are now.”

— Sophia Loren

61. “I always try to have a vacation.”

— Sophia Loren

62. “I still like me, inside and out. Not in a vain way – I just feel good in my skin.”

— Sophia Loren

63. “Success, I would find out, is interior. It has to do with self-fulfillment and the joy of living.”

— Sophia Loren

64. “You have to believe in marriage and you have to believe in a relationship between two people. If you really think in your life that you have found the right person, you have to stick to it, even though there are ups and downs. If you really believe in your union, you have to nourish it and work for it, then you can really spend your life together forever.”

— Sophia Loren

65. “I was born wise. Street-wise, people-wise, self-wise. This wisdom was my birthright.”

— Sophia Loren

66. “The most indespensible ingredient of all good home cooking: love for those you are cooking for.”

— Sophia Loren

67. “My mother taught me to walk proud and tall ‘as if the world was mine.’”

— Sophia Loren

68. “The fantasy of a man is the best weapon of a woman.”

— Sophia Loren

69. “At the dressing table, every woman has a chance to be an artist, and art, as Aristotle said, ‘completes what nature left unfinished.’”

— Sophia Loren

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

— Sophia Loren

71. “You cannot say, because I am from Naples so I like the mixture of drama and comedy all together.”

— Sophia Loren

72. “Sex appeal is fifty percent what you’ve got and fifty percent what people think you’ve got.”

— Sophia Loren

73. “I hated my father all my life but in his final days I forgave him for all the suffering he caused us. As you grow older, marry, and have children of you own, you learn and forget. I do not forget easily, but I do forgive.”

— Sophia Loren

74. “Without my mother’s ambition, her drive, I doubt that on my own I would have pushed myself out of Pozzuoli and into the frightening world that was faraway Rome.”

— Sophia Loren

75. “I think the quality of sexiness comes from within.”

— Sophia Loren

76. “Luck assists fortune, you need to catch the moment. Otherwise the opportunity fades.”

— Sophia Loren

77. “Where youthful beauty is unconscious, mature beauty is knowing and sophisticated.”

— Sophia Loren

78. “I was not interested in what I could bring to myself by being an actress, but in what I could bring out of myself.”

— Sophia Loren

79. “Getting ahead in a difficult profession requires avid faith in yourself...”

— Sophia Loren

80. “Believe me, it is actions that count.”

— Sophia Loren

81. “If you can learn to use your mind as well as your powder puff, you will become more truly beautiful.”

— Sophia Loren

82. “When I was a child, fear was common to my life – fear of having nothing to eat, fear of the other children taunting me at school because I was illegitimate, and particularly fear of the big bombers appearing overhead and dropping their lethal bursts from the sky.”

— Sophia Loren

83. “There’s no pleasure in working if you don’t do the things you want to do.”

— Sophia Loren

84. “The Fountain of Youth is in your mind.”

— Sophia Loren

85. “If you are a professional actor who has pride in his work, then the judgment of your peers should be important to you. I treasure each and every award I have ever received – and my Oscar is in a place of honor.”

— Sophia Loren

86. “Learn to use your brains as deftly as your powder box, and then maybe you have a powder box and do not need...”

— Sophia Loren

87. “Style must be adapted to the woman and not vice versa. The same can be said of clothes.”

— Sophia Loren

88. “Beauty is no handicap if you don’t think about it.”

— Sophia Loren

89. “It is very important for an actor or actress to look around at everything and everyone and never forget about real life.”

— Sophia Loren

90. “Almost starve, but I don’t starve because I eat very much.”

— Sophia Loren

91. “I’m a very shy person and I never tried to do theater.”

— Sophia Loren

92. “Discipline is the great equalizer. If a young woman is beautiful but has no discipline, she will lose her looks as she grows older. If a plain woman is disciplined she will undoubtedly become more beautiful with time.”

— Sophia Loren

93. “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.’”

— Sophia Loren

94. “It’s necessary to have an energy that carries you forward. You need the will to live, to have a great curiosity. To look for the best in life, to find new interests.”

— Sophia Loren

95. “I’m an actress. It’s my passion.”

— Sophia Loren

96. “Show business is what I do, not what I am.”

— Sophia Loren

97. “Ignorance has its virtues; without it there’d be mighty little conversation.”

— Sophia Loren