Sophia Loren

I always try to have a vacation.

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.

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

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.

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

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.'

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.

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

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.

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

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

I'm an actress. It's my passion. It's - I've always lived for acting.

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 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.

There's no pleasure in working if you don't do the things you want to do.

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

I am lucky. I had a very beautiful mother.

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

I walk, walk, walk, walk. That's very good for your heart.

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

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

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

Everything you see I owe to spaghetti.

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