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Transformation is something I cannot explain - too much analysis might destroy it.
I eat a lot of salad, a little meat, and some fruit—that’s all. But I like sweets.
I eat a lot of salad, a little meat, and some fruit. That's all. But I like sweets.
I was born wise. Street-wise, people-wise, self-wise. This wisdom was my birthright.
Luck assists fortune, you need to catch the moment. Otherwise the opportunity fades.
True love comes along after adolescence, when we have learned not to cry for nothing.
Style must be adapted to the woman and not vice versa. The same can be said of clothes.
The right hairstyle can make a plain woman beautiful and a beautiful woman unforgettable.
Sex appeal is fifty percent what you've got and fifty percent what people think you've got.
It's a mistake to think that once you're done with school you need never learn anything new.
The most indespensible ingredient of all good home cooking: love for those you are cooking for.
You cannot say, because I am from Naples so I like the mixture of drama and comedy all together.
Success, I would find out, is interior. It has to do with self-fulfillment and the joy of living.
The two big advantages I had at birth were to have been born wise and to have been born in poverty.
If you can learn to use your mind as well as your powder puff, you will become more truly beautiful.
You do not become a star, you are born a star. A star is born with that indefinable extra something.
A woman's dress should be like a barbed-wire fence: serving its purpose without obstructing the view.
I'm a giraffe. I even walk like a giraffe with a long neck and legs. It's a pretty dumb animal, mind you.
Physical exercise makes you more graceful. After some gymnasitics you walk as if the whole street is yours.
Learn to use your brains as deftly as your powder box, and then maybe you have a powder box and do not need.
For me, it is good to be vulnerable. It makes me nice... weak sometimes, but in a good way, not a tragic way.
I firmly believe we can make our own miracles if we believe strongly enough in ourselves and our mission on earth.
I was not interested in what I could bring to myself by being an actress, but in what I could bring out of myself.
My philosophy is that it's better to explore life and make mistakes than to play it safe and not to explore at all.
There is no better love potion than a coffee. When a man drinks the coffee made by you he will become forever yours.
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.
There is no greater love potion than regular coffee, brewed his own. When a man tries it, he was not going anywhere.
It is very important for an actor or actress to look around at everything and everyone and never forget about real life.
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.
Sometimes when you involve yourself in so many things, you can't do any of them well - and I like to do everything perfectly.
You have to be born a sex symbol. You don't become one. If you're born with it, you'll have it even when you're 100 years old.
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 work when I feel like I can do something that pleases me, that I think I can give a little more than I've given up to yesterday.
I have never judged myself by other people’s standards. I have always expected a great deal of myself, and if I fail, I fail myself.
At the dressing table, every woman has a chance to be an artist, and art, as Aristotle said, 'completes what nature left unfinished.'
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.
When I'm walking along in the street, I always feel that around the corner,there is something wonderful waiting for me. That's my attitude.
I believe that rewards in life are deserved. Every reward is the fruit of discipline, of dedication and of sacrifices. And of stubbornness.
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.
Men always marry younger girls, but sometimes when a women who's very mature marries a younger man, she's criticized. It needs to be corrected.
I don't believe in anti-aging creams. I believe the skin should be clean, should be nourished, but most of all you should eat the right things.
When you are a mother, you are never really alone in your thoughts. A mother always has to think twice, once for herself and once for her child.
You really have to be satisfied with what you are and accept from life what it still very generously offers you - and notice it, and be glad for it.
Being beautiful can never hurt, but you have to have more. You have to sparkle, you have to be fun, you have to make your brain work if you have one.
Jealousy is a miserable feeling. It means you aspire to something that you cannot have. Even in love, it is better to leave, better not to waste time.
My mother was so beautiful, she really was a a wonderful person. Always walking like a queen. Like she owned the world. Maybe I took something from her.
You have to enjoy life. Always be surrounded by people that you like, people who have a nice conversation. There are so many positive things to think about.
Sex is like washing your face - just something you do because you have to. Sex without love is absolutely ridiculous. Sex follows love, it never precedes it.
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.
I don't like to go in places where women talk and gossip. The atmosphere I don't like, even though you can sometimes meet nice people. For me, it's a waste of time.