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
Everything you see I owe to spaghetti.
Beauty is how you feel inside, and it reflects in your eyes. It is not something physical.
I have my own peculiar yardstick for measuring a man: Does he have the courage to cry in a moment of grief? Does he have the compassion not to hunt an animal? In his relationship with a woman, is he gentle? Real manliness is nurtured in kindness and gentleness, which I associate with intelligence, comprehension, tolerance, justice, education, and high morality. If only men realized how easy it is to open a woman's heart with kindness, and how many women close their hearts to the assaults of the Don Juans.
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.
Learn to use your brains as deftly as your powder box, and then maybe you have a powder box and do not need ...
I know how to say 'no' in twelve languages. That's enough for a woman.
Mistakes are the price of an interesting life.
True happiness is impossible without solitude.... I need solitude in my life as I need food and drink and the laughter of little children. Extravagant though it may sound, solitude is the filter of my soul. It nourishes me, and rejuvenates me. Left alone, I discovered that I keep myself good company.
I'd much rather eat pasta and drink wine than be a size 0.
It's a mistake to think that once you're done with school you need never learn anything new.
Though poor and anxious to work, I refused to alter anything. They would take me as I looked or not at all.... Eventually I profited by looking like myself and not like what was fashionable years ago with certain film technicians in Rome.
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...