49 of Sophia Loren’s Most Inspirational Quotes

Sophia Loren was born in Rome, Italy as Sofia Villani Scicolene on September 20, 1934. She had an amazing rags to riches story as she was raised in poverty and became Italy’s most famous movie start and recognized around the globe as one of the most beautiful women in the world. She began her film career in 1951 and won the Best Actress Academy Award for the film Two Women in 1961. She also received an Honorary award from the Academy in 1991.

Across her long career, Sophia has appeared in more than 100 films.

As of this writing in 2020, Sophia Loren lives in Geneva, Switzerland.

Sophia Loren Quotes

1. “Discipline is the great equalizer. If a young woman is beautiful but has no discipline, she will lose her looks as she grows older. If a plain woman is disciplined she will undoubtedly become more beautiful with time.” — Sophia Loren

2. “I am against all war.” — Sophia Loren

3. “If you haven’t cried, your eyes can’t be beautiful.” — Sophia Loren

4. “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

5. “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.” — Sophia Loren

6. “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.” — Sophia Loren


7. “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

8. “The two big advantages I had at birth were to have been born wise and to have been born in poverty.” — Sophia Loren

9. “Mistakes are part of the dues one pays for a full life.” — Sophia Loren

10. “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.” — Sophia Loren

11. “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

12. “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.” — Sophia Loren

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13. “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

14. “I am lucky. I had a very beautiful mother.” — Sophia Loren

15. “I’m a very shy person and I never tried to do theater.” — Sophia Loren

16. “You must all, somewhere deep in your hearts, believe that you have a special beauty that is like no other and that is so valuable that you must not abandon it. Indeed, you must learn to cherish it.” — Sophia Loren

17. “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

18. “Everything you see I owe to spaghetti.” — Sophia Loren

19. “Nothing makes a woman more beautiful than the belief that she is beautiful.” — Sophia Loren

20. “A mother has to think twice, once for herself and once for her child.” — Sophia Loren

21. “It’s a mistake to think that once you’re done with school you need never learn anything new.” — Sophia Loren

22. “I’m an actress. It’s my passion. It’s – I’ve always lived for acting.” — Sophia Loren

23. “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.” — Sophia Loren


24. “At the dressing table, every woman has a chance to be an artist, and art, as Aristotle said, ‘completes what nature left unfinished.’” — Sophia Loren

25. “There’s no pleasure in working if you don’t do the things you want to do.” — Sophia Loren

26. “Beauty is how you feel inside, and it reflects in your eyes. It is not something physical.” — Sophia Loren

27. “If you really believe in your union, you have to nourish it and work for it, then you can really spend your life together forever.” — Sophia Loren

28. “Sex appeal is fifty percent what you’ve got and fifty percent what people think you’ve got.” — Sophia Loren

29. “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.'” — Sophia Loren

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30. “Be careful about what you eat because otherwise you get fat! Do you like to be fat? Eat very, very, very little things. Almost starve, but I don’t starve, because I eat very much.” — Sophia Loren

31. “It is a great advantage for a system of philosophy to be substantially true.” — Sophia Loren

32. “You have to believe in marriage and you have to believe in a relationship between two people. If you really think in your life that you have found the right person, you have to stick to it, even though there are ups and downs. If you really believe in your union, you have to nourish it and work for it, then you can really spend your life together forever.” — Sophia Loren

33. “I’m sick when I don’t work for a year or two.” — Sophia Loren

34. “The most indispensable ingredient of all good home cooking: love for those you are cooking for.” — Sophia Loren

35. “Real manliness is nurtured in kindness and gentleness, which I associate with intelligence, comprehension, tolerance, justice, education, and high morality.” — Sophia Loren

36. “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.” — Sophia Loren

37. “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

38. “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.” — Sophia Loren

39. “As time passed there was no more buying food, no money, no supplies. On some days, we wouldn’t even have a crumb to eat. There’s a vivid scene in Nanni Loy’s The Four Days of Naples, a movie made after the war about the uprising of the Neapolitans against the occupying Germans, in which one of the young characters sinks his teeth into a loaf of bread so voraciously, so desperately, I can still identify with him. In those four famous days in late September, when Naples rose up against the Germans—even before the Allies arrived, it was the climax of a terrible period of deprivation and marked the beginning of the end of the war in Italy.” — Sophia Loren

40. “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

41. “You cannot say, because I am from Naples so I like the mixture of drama and comedy all together.” — Sophia Loren

42. “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

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43. “A woman’s dress should be like a barbed-wire fence: serving its purpose without obstructing the view.” — Sophia Loren

44. “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

45. “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.” — Sophia Loren

46. “”There is a fountain of youth: it is your mind, your talents, the creativity you bring to your life and the lives of people you love. When you learn to tap this source, you will truly have defeated age.” — Sophia Loren

47. “Spaghetti can be eaten most successfully if you inhale it like a vacuum cleaner.” — Sophia Loren

48. “I always try to have a vacation.” — Sophia Loren

49. “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.” — Sophia Loren


Sophia Loren Video – from Yesterday, Today Tomorrow

The 1963 movie Yesterday, Today Tomorrow is a classic. The movie consists of 3 separate stories in which Sophia Loren and Marcello Mastroianni play different characters. It is a very funny and also sad movie. The two actors have incredible chemistry. This famous strip tease scene is very famous and has been copied in many other movies. In this particular segment of the movie, Sophia plays Mara, a high class call girl who lives in a top floor apartment in Rome. Marcello Mastroianni plays Augusto, who is a loyal customer form Bologna. In this scene, Augusto is full of passion for Mara and she does a striptease for him.

Conclusion

Hopefully these quotes remind you of Sophia Loren’s beauty and talent as an actress. She had an incredible presence on the screen and great chemistry with her co-stars across many different movies. And she will always be an icon both of Italy and also Hollywood.

Image Credit: Movie studio / Public domain

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