Sophia Loren
Sophia Loren
Sophia Lorenis an Italian film actress. Encouraged to enroll in acting lessons after entering a beauty pageant, Loren began her film career in 1950 at age 15. She appeared in several bit parts and minor roles in the early part of the decade, until her five-picture contract with Paramount in 1956 launched her international career. Notable film appearances around this time include The Pride and the Passion, Houseboat, and It Started in Naples...
NationalityItalian
ProfessionMovie Actress
Date of Birth20 September 1934
CityRome, Italy
CountryItaly
You cannot say, because I am from Naples so I like the mixture of drama and comedy all together.
There's no pleasure in working if you don't do the things you want to do.
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 still don't know what I want to do when I grow up.
I'm a very shy person and I never tried to do theater.
I'm an actress. It's my passion.
Beauty is how you feel inside...
Everything you live through helps to make you the person you are now.
Physical exercise makes you more graceful. After some gymnasitics you walk as if the whole street is yours.
I was not interested in what I could bring to myself by being an actress, but in what I could bring out of myself.
Getting ahead in a difficult profession - singing, acting, writing, whatever requires avid faith in yourself. You must be able to sustain yourself against staggering blows and unfair reversals. When I think back to those first couple of years in Rome, those endless rejections, without a glimmer of encouragement from anyone, all those failed screen tests, and yet I never let my desire slide away from me, my belief in myself and what I felt I could achieve.
For me, it is good to be vulnerable. It makes me nice... weak sometimes, but in a good way, not a tragic way.
i have no regrets. regret only makes wrinkles.
Getting ahead in a difficult profession requires avid faith in yourself...