Sophia Loren
Sophia Loren
Sophia Lorenis an Italian film actress. Encouraged to enroll in acting lessons after entering a beauty pageant, Loren began her film career in 1950 at age 15. She appeared in several bit parts and minor roles in the early part of the decade, until her five-picture contract with Paramount in 1956 launched her international career. Notable film appearances around this time include The Pride and the Passion, Houseboat, and It Started in Naples...
NationalityItalian
ProfessionMovie Actress
Date of Birth20 September 1934
CityRome, Italy
CountryItaly
The eyes of a woman who never cried can not be beautiful.
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.
Without my mother's ambition, her drive, I doubt that on my own I would have pushed myself out of Pozzuoli and into the frightening world that was faraway Rome.
A mother always thinks twice: for herself and for the child
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.
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.'
Beauty is how you feel inside...
You cannot say, because I am from Naples so I like the mixture of drama and comedy all together.
At the dressing table, every woman has a chance to be an artist, and art, as Aristotle said, 'completes what nature left unfinished.'
For me, it is good to be vulnerable. It makes me nice... weak sometimes, but in a good way, not a tragic way.
I'm very susceptible to sex appeal.
A dog is faithful, a woman never.
There is no better love potion than a coffee. When a man drinks the coffee made by you he will become forever yours.
Physical exercise makes you more graceful. After some gymnasitics you walk as if the whole street is yours.