I’m a giraffe. I even walk like a giraffe with a long neck and legs. It’s a pretty dumb animal, mind you. – Sophia Loren
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. – Sophia Loren
After all these years, I am still involved in the process of self-discovery. It’s better to explore life and make mistakes than to play it safe. Mistakes are part of the dues one pays for a full life. – Sophia Loren
Beauty is how you feel inside, and it reflects in your eyes. It is not something physical. – Sophia Loren
The two big advantages I had at birth were to have been born wise and to have been born in poverty. – Sophia Loren
There is a Fountain of Youth: It is your mind, your talents, the creativity you bring to your life and the lives of the people you love. When you learn to tap this source, you will truly have defeated age. – Sophia Loren
When you are a mother, you are never really alone in your thoughts. A mother always has to think twice, once for herself and once for her child. – Sophia Loren
I think the quality of sexiness comes from within. It is something that is in you or it isn’t and it really doesn’t have much to do with breasts or thighs or the pout of your lips. – Sophia Loren
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. – Sophia Loren
You have to enjoy life. Always be surrounded by people that you like, people who have a nice conversation. There are so many positive things to think about. – Sophia Loren
Getting ahead in a difficult profession requires avid faith in yourself. That is why some people with mediocre talent, but with great inner drive, go so much further than people with vastly superior talent. – Sophia Loren
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. – Sophia Loren
Sex appeal is fifty percent what you’ve got and fifty percent what people think you’ve got. – Sophia Loren
A woman’s dress should be like a barbed-wire fence: serving its purpose without obstructing the view. – Sophia Loren
