180 Quotes by Sophia Loren
"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."
"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."
"I think, in our life I think that when you are an actor, when you are a producer, you have to be very discreet about your personal life, and you have to be closed in, in harmony and in affection and in everything."
"Ignorance has its virtues; without it there'd be mighty little conversation."
"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."
"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.'"
"Luck assists fortune, you need to catch the moment. Otherwise the opportunity fades."
"The two big advantages I had at birth were to have been born wise and to have been born in poverty."
"I'm a very shy person, and I never tried to do theater. I've been asked many, many times by the most incredible authors in America to do theater. And I always said no, not knowing what it is to be on the stage and to do theater."