Sophia Loren Quotes – Timeless Beauty, Wisdom, and Elegance from a Cinema Icon

I have never tried to block memories of the past, even though some of them are immensely painful. I don’t understand people who hide from their past. Everything you experienced yesterday was a lesson for today.

Sex appeal is only 50% of who you are, the rest is what people think you have.

Mistakes are part of the debts paid to have a full life.

The two great advantages I had at birth were being born poor and wise.

Being successful in your career requires you to have faith in yourself. That’s why so many people with mediocre talent but immense willpower manage to go further than many talented people.

Cooking is an act of love, a gift, a way of sharing your little secrets with others.

A woman’s dress should be like a barbed wire fence: serving its purpose without obstructing the view.

A mother has to think twice: once for herself and once for her child.

Many people want to achieve things, but they don’t have the strength and discipline required. They are weak. I believe that you can achieve anything you want, if you go ahead and believe.

(About Tyrone Power): He was my ideal type of man.

(About Gregory Peck): One of the most charming men I have ever met.

(About Marcello Mastroianni): He is very much a man, he talks like a man and has great magnetism and a soul as sweet as a woman’s.

(About Cary Grant): I learned many things from him. He has enormous concentration, he knows how to concentrate, how to look directly at you, but leave you relaxed.

I hated my father all my life, but in his last days I forgave him for all the suffering he caused us. As we grow older, we learn to forget. I don’t forget easily, but I forgive. There is a fountain of youth: your mind, your talent, the creativity you bring to your life and the lives of the people you love.

Sharon Stone talks about sex as if it were a plate of spaghetti or pizza. These things are private, you need to be a little discreet.

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Carla Marinho Leal

Writer, traveler and above all, curious about many subjects. She has studied cinema since 2002 and is a Specialist in Cinematographic Studies from UNICAP. Founder of the blog Purviance and the website Cinemaclássico. She loves Charles Chaplin, Raj Kapoor and constantly browses films from all over the world.

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