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

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

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

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

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.

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

Sex appeal is 50% what you've got and 50% what people think you've got.

Beauty is how you feel inside ...

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

It's a mistake to think that once you're done with school you need never learn anything new.

I'm not Italian, I am Neapolitan! It's another thing!

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

Mistakes are the price of an interesting life.

I can cook, I can breathe, I can live!

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

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

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

Sex appeal is fifty percent what you've got and fifty percent what people think you've got.

I always try to have a vacation.

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

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

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

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

Everything you see I owe to spaghetti.

My mother taught me to walk proud and tall 'as if the world was mine.'

A dog is faithful, a woman never.

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

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

For me, it is good to be vulnerable. It makes me nice ... weak sometimes, but in a good way, not a tragic way.

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

The fantasy of a man is the best weapon of a woman.

Ignorance has its virtues; without it there'd be mighty little conversation.

Beauty is no handicap if you don't think about it.

If you haven't cried, your eyes can't be beautiful.

If you haven't cried, your eyes cannot be beautiful

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

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

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

I am lucky. I had a very beautiful mother.

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

Beauty is in you and is reflected in your eyes. It is not material.

I know how to say 'no' in twelve languages. That's enough for a woman.

A mother always thinks twice: for herself and for the child

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.

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

I still don't know what I want to do when I grow up.

Good food is a celebration of life.

I still like me, inside and out. Not in a vain way - I just feel good in my skin.

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

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

Transformation is something I cannot explain - too much analysis might destroy it.

Where youthful beauty is unconscious, mature beauty is knowing and sophisticated.

The Fountain of Youth is in your mind.

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

There is no better love potion than a coffee. When a man drinks the coffee made by you he will become forever yours.

every opportunity is a big opportunity,

Show business is what I do, not what I am.

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.

I'm an actress. It's my passion.

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

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

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.

I have no regrets. regret only makes wrinkles.

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

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

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

Hate is unfulfilled love.

I'm very susceptible to sex appeal.

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.

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.

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

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

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.

Physical exercise makes you more graceful. After some gymnasitics you walk as if the whole street is yours.

You have to be born a sex symbol. You don't become one. If you're born with it, you'll have it even when you're 100 years old.

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.

Believe me, it is actions that count.

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