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
I was not interested in what I could bring to myself by being an actress, but in what I could bring out of myself.
You do not become a star, you are born a star. A star is born with that indefinable extra something.
True love comes along after adolescence, when we have learned not to cry for nothing.
As far as beauty is concerned, in order to be confident we must accept that the way we look and feel is our own responsibility.
I can cook, I can breathe, I can live!
The Fountain of Youth is in your mind.
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.
A mother has to think twice, once for herself and once for her child.
I always try to have a vacation.
Almost starve, but I don’t starve because I eat very much
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.
Is my mother my friend? I would have to say, first of all she is my Mother, with a capital 'M'; she's something sacred to me. I love her dearly...yes, she is also a good friend, someone I can talk openly with if I want to.
I was not intrigued with the accouterments of success and fame, the furs, jewels, expensive automobiles and mansions... I can assure you that these things were not on my mind when I sat spellbound in that Pozzuoli movie house. It was what these performers on the screen were doing, not what they received for doing it.
Sex appeal is 50% what you've got and 50% what people think you've got.