180 Quotes by Sophia Loren

My mother taught me to walk proud and tall ‘as if the world was mine.’

At the dressing table, every woman has a chance to be an artist, and art, as Aristotle said, ‘completes what nature left unfinished.’

Isn’t it wonderful to be alive? You know, you can forget all about it. Then suddenly you remember, and think of all the things you can do. Here I am. I can walk around. I can talk. I can see things and remember things. I am alive. How wonderful!

Any woman can look her best if she feels good in her skin. It’s not a question of clothes or makeup. It’s how she sparkles.

I still don’t know what I want to do when I grow up.

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

Cooking is an act of love, a gift, a way of sharing with others the little secrets – ‘piccoli segreti’ – that are simmering on the burners.

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.

It’s a mistake to think that once you’re done with school you need never learn anything new.