Learn to use your brains as deftly as your powder box, and then maybe you have a powder box and do not need. Sophia Loren More Quotes by Sophia Loren More Quotes From Sophia Loren I can't tell you that I like getting older, but I think I can cope with it because everybody gets older. Sometimes it's a little upsetting because time goes by and you want to do more and you have to accept life for what it is and find some new motivation that gives you drive and enthusiasm. Sophia Loren motivation giving thinking I was blessed with a sense of my own destiny. I have never sold myself short. 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. So failure or reversal does not bring out resentment in me because I cannot blame others for any misfortune that befalls me. Sophia Loren destiny blessed life 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. Sophia Loren couple encouragement writing I do not know if I really am a big star. And in fact that is not the most important thing for me. What counts in life is to bring about more of your own dreams. In such a way that your life becomes like a fairy tale. This is what has happened to me, it is just like that. Sophia Loren stars important dream Transformation is something I cannot explain - too much analysis might destroy it. Sophia Loren analysis leap-of-faith might The girl who swears no one has ever made love to her has a right to swear. Sophia Loren swear girl made Mistakes are a part of the dues one pays for a full life. Sophia Loren mistake positive inspirational If you don't have the roots somewhere, it's very difficult for people to work with you. Because you are a different person from them. They don't know you, really. They don't know how you feel. Sophia Loren different roots people 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. Sophia Loren rome film years 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 special heart believe Everything you live through helps to make you the person you are now. Sophia Loren past-memories persons helping I still like me, inside and out. Not in a vain way - I just feel good in my skin. Sophia Loren feel-good skins way I don't like to go in places where women talk and gossip. The atmosphere I don't like, even though you can sometimes meet nice people. For me, it's a waste of time. Sophia Loren gossip nice people 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 born sex years 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. Sophia Loren tiny naked bears Ignorance has its virtues; without it there'd be mighty little conversation. Sophia Loren virtue ignorance littles It is very important for an actor or actress to look around at everything and everyone and never forget about real life. Sophia Loren important real looks There is no greater love potion than regular coffee, brewed his own. When a man tries it, he was not going anywhere. Sophia Loren coffee trying men Learn to use your brains as deftly as your powder box, and then, perhaps, powder box you will not need ... Know smart women men say beautiful - eyes snatched from the crowd and do not forget just charming. Sophia Loren smart eye beautiful I was not interested in what I could bring to myself by being an actress, but in what I could bring out of myself. Sophia Loren actresses not-interested
