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 More Quotes by Sophia Loren More Quotes From Sophia Loren I think for the women of today, because we work and go around a lot, Armani is ideal - simple and elegant at the same time. It's not eccentric, and everything he does is very subtle. For the evening, I like Gianfranco Ferre. There's a lot of fantasy and creativity in his clothes. Sophia Loren creativity simple thinking At this moment, everyone is in crisis, not only in Italy but all over Europe. Only in America do they make films that are successful all over the world. In Europe, production is quite poor. We have three or four or five films, which is not enough. Sophia Loren successful europe america Film is just a mirror of the society we live in. Sophia Loren film mirrors Film is just a mirror of the society we live in. Sophia Loren film mirrors I work when I feel like I can do something that pleases me, that I think I can give a little more than I've given up to yesterday. Sophia Loren please-me yesterday thinking I don't go for films that exalt violence. I don't want them in my house. Sometimes my children see them. But nowadays they do it so truthfully and with so much passion that you are shocked. Sophia Loren passion house children I like to cook for my friends. It is an act of love because in cooking you can create so many plates and recipes, if you know how to - otherwise you make a mess - but I like it because it's like a ceremony. You cook for your friends and after, you drink wine and play cards. Sophia Loren wine play love-is I have to say that since my mother died, I am not the same person anymore. My life has changed a great deal because it's really unbearable to think you can't see her anymore or talk to her anymore. Sophia Loren unbearable mother thinking Being an actress, you are accustomed to learn to do so many things... You learn how to dry your hair, curl your hair and do your nails. Sometimes, just for fun, I have someone come in to do my nails, but I like to do them three times a week. If I went out to have them done, then I would spend my life at the hairdresser's and that I can't afford. Sophia Loren nails hair fun Sometimes you feel a need to express yourself, and there is no better way than to go to places where people need everything. It's dramatic, it's tragic. You just can't understand why, in the world of today, there are still things like that. The images you see on TV kill you. Of course when you are there (at these trouble spots) you can't turn off the TV. You are face-to-face with reality. Sophia Loren reality people world [William] Klein has eyes like a knife. He is ruthless and outrageous but never mean - he is tender and funny and violent - and, I'm sure, really in love with our crazy Rome. Sophia Loren crazy eye mean When I was a child, fear was common to my life - fear of having nothing to eat, fear of the other children taunting me at school because I was illegitimate, and particularly fear of the big bombers appearing overhead and dropping their lethal bursts from the sky. Sophia Loren sky children school A mother always thinks twice: for herself and for the child Sophia Loren mother children thinking 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 two years interesting I hated my father all my life but in his final days I forgave him for all the suffering he caused us. As you grow older, marry, and have children of you own, you learn and forget. I do not forget easily, but I do forgive. Sophia Loren forgiving father children 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 chance tables art Getting ahead in a difficult profession requires avid faith in yourself. Sophia Loren avid mediocre talent You cannot say, because I am from Naples so I like the mixture of drama and comedy all together. Sophia Loren mixtures together drama I'm a very shy person and I never tried to do theater. Sophia Loren theater shy persons I'm not Italian, I am Neapolitan! It's another thing! Sophia Loren italian