180 Quotes by Sophia Loren

If you are a professional actor who has pride in his work, then the judgment of your peers should be important to you. I treasure each and every award I have ever received – and my Oscar is in a place of honor.

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.

Transformation is something I cannot explain – too much analysis might destroy it.

I can’t bear being seen naked. I’m not exactly a tiny woman. When Sophia Loren is naked, this is a lot of nakedness.

I know how to say ‘no’ in twelve languages. That’s enough for a woman.

A mother always thinks twice: for herself and for the child.

Learn to use your brains as deftly as your powder box, and then maybe you have a powder box and do not need...

There’s no pleasure in working if you don’t do the things you want to do.

The facts of life are that a child who has seen war cannot be compared with a child who doesn’t know what war is except from television.