Once I put myself into a thing, I do my utmost, my very, very best.
I am lucky. I had a very beautiful mother.
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.
I hated my father all my life but in his final days I forgave him for all the suffering he caused us. As you grow older, marry, and have children of you own, you learn and forget. I do not forget easily, but I do forgive.
I’m not Italian, I am Neapolitan! It’s another thing!
I’m a giraffe. I even walk like a giraffe with a long neck and legs. It’s a pretty dumb animal, mind you.
I’m an actress. It’s my passion.
There’s no pleasure in working if you don’t do the things you want to do.
I was so skinny, they gave me the nickname stechetto – the stick. I was tall, thin, ugly and dark like an Arab girl. I looked strange. All eyes. No flesh on my bones.
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 still don’t know what I want to do when I grow up.
I’m a very shy person and I never tried to do theater.
The eyes of a woman who never cried can not be beautiful.
Everything you live through helps to make you the person you are now.
I was born wise. Street-wise, people-wise, self-wise. This wisdom was my birthright.
Physical exercise makes you more graceful. After some gymnasitics you walk as if the whole street is yours.
Getting ahead in a difficult profession requires avid faith in yourself...
Style must be adapted to the woman and not vice versa. The same can be said of clothes.
I think the quality of sexiness comes from within.
At the dressing table, every woman has a chance to be an artist, and art, as Aristotle said, ‘completes what nature left unfinished.’