Sophia Loren

“I think the quality of sexiness comes from within. It is something that is in you or it isn't and it really doesn't have much to do with breasts or thighs or the pout of your lips.”

“Everything you see I owe to spaghetti.”

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

“There is a fountain of youth: it is your mind, your talents, the creativity you bring to your life and the lives of people you love. When you learn to tap this source, you will truly have defeated age.”

“Mistakes are part of the dues one pays for a full life.”

“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.”

“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.”

“If you haven't cried, your eyes can't be beautiful.”

“I've never tried to block out the memories of the past, even though some are painful. I don't understand people who hide from their past. Everything you live through helps to make you the person you are today.”

“A mother always has to think twice, once for herself and once for her child.”

“Nothing makes a woman more beautiful than the belief that she is beautiful.”

“The two big advantages I had at birth were to have been born wise and to have been born in poverty.”

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

“Sex appeal is fifty percent what you've got and fifty percent what people think you've got.”

“Beauty is how you feel inside, and it reflects in your eyes. It is not something physical.”

“The most indispensable ingredient of all good home cooking: love for those you are cooking for.”