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Vote: | A woman's dress should be like a barbed-wire fence: serving its purpose without obstructing the view. |
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Vote: | After all these years, I am still involved in the process of self-discovery. It's better to explore life and make mistakes than to play it safe. Mistakes are part of the dues one pays for a full life. |
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Vote: | Beauty is how you feel inside, and it reflects in your eyes. It is not something physical. |
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Vote: | Everything you see I owe to spaghetti. |
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Vote: | 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. |
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Vote: | I am against all war. |
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Vote: | 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. |
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Vote: | 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. |
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Vote: | 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. |
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Vote: | I'm a giraffe. I even walk like a giraffe with a long neck and legs. It's a pretty dumb animal, mind you. |
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Vote: | 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 now. |
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Vote: | If you haven't cried, your eyes can't be beautiful. |
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Vote: | It is a great advantage for a system of philosophy to be substantially true. |
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Vote: | It's a mistake to think that once you're done with school you need never learn anything new. |
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Vote: | 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. |
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Vote: | Sex appeal is fifty percent what you've got and fifty percent what people think you've got. |
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Vote: | 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. |
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Vote: | Spaghetti can be eaten most successfully if you inhale it like a vacuum cleaner. |
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Vote: | 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. |
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Vote: | The two big advantages I had at birth were to have been born wise and to have been born in poverty. |
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Vote: | 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. |
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Vote: | 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. |
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Vote: | 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. |
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Sophia Loren (born September 20, 1934) is considered to be the most famous Italian actress of all time and, at the age of 70, continues to be a top sex symbol.
She was born Sofia Villani Scicolone in Rome, Italy, the illegitimate daughter of aspiring actress and piano teacher Romilda Villani and married engineer Riccardo Scicolone and grew up in poverty in wartime Pozzuoli near Naples.
Loren began her film career in the early 1950s playing bit parts in mostly minor Italian films, but she had an early brush with Hollywood in 1951 when she and her mother worked as extras in the blockbuster Quo Vadis, which was filmed in Rome. Around this time, she also worked as a model in the fotoromanzi (weekly ilustrated romantic stories) billed as "Sofia Villani" or "Sofia Lazzaro' and took part in regional beauty contests, were she won several prizes and was discovered by her future husband, film producer Carlo Ponti.
Under Ponti's management, Sophia Scicolone changed her name to Sophia Loren and, after more early film roles that emphasized her voluptuous physique (she even appeared topless in the films Two Nights with Cleopatra and It's Him, Yes! Yes!), her acting career took off upon meeting Vittorio De Sica and Marcello Mastroianni in 1954.
By the second half of the 1950s, her star began to rise in Hollywood, with films such as 1957's Boy on a Dolphin and The Pride and the Passion,(in which she co-starred with Frank Sinatra and Cary Grant, the latter to whom she became romantically attracted for a time). Loren became an international film star with a five-picture contract with Paramount Studios. Among her films at this time: Desire Under the Elms with Anthony Perkins (based upon the Eugene O'Neill play), Houseboat (a romantic comedy again co-starring Cary Grant), and George Cukor's Heller in Pink Tights (in which she appeared blonde for the first time in her career).
In spite of her status as a love goddess and major sex symbol, Loren demonstrated considerable dramatic skills and gained respect as a dramatic and comedy actress, especially in Italian projects where she more freely expressed herself, although she gained profiency in the English language. In 1960, her acclaimed performance in Vittorio De Sica's Two Women earned her a multitude of awards and, along with the Cannes, Venezia and Berlin festivals' best performance prizes, the distinction of being the first actor to win a major category Academy Award (Best Actress) for a non-English language performance.
During the 1960s Loren was one of the most popular actresses in the world, and continued to make popular films in both America and in Europe, acting with all the leading male stars of the time. In 1964 her career came, to an effect, full circle when she received $1 million to join the all-star cast of The Fall of the Roman Empire, directed by the same man who had directed Quo Vadis early in her career. Some of her best-known films of this period are Peter Ustinov's Lady L with Paul Newman, Charles Chaplin's final film, A Countess from Hong Kong with Marlon Brando, and The Millionairess with Peter Sellers, with whom she recorded a best-selling album of comedic songs and also reportedly from whom she had to fend off romantic advances.
After becoming a mother of two sons her career slowed down and Loren moved into her 40s and 50s gracefully mantaining her status as a fine dramatic actress and a perenial sex symbol, with acclaimed roles in films such as the last De Sica movie, The Voyage, with Richard Burton and Ettore Scola's A Special Day with Mastroianni.
In 1980, she had the rare privilege of portraying herself (as well as her own mother) in a made-for-television biopic adaptation of her autobiography bestseller Sophia: Living and Loving titled Sophia Loren: Her Own Story. (Rita Brown and Chiara Ferrari played younger versions of the actress. She made headlines in 1982 when she served an 18-day prison sentence in Italy on tax evasion charges, a fact that didn't damage her career or popularity.
In her 60s, Loren was selective in her films and ventured into various areas of business (cook books, eyewear, jewelery and perfume - Loren was the first movie star to launch a personal fragrance) but made very well-received appearances in Robert Altman's Ready to Wear and the 1994 comedy Grumpier Old Men playing a femme fatale opposite Walter Matthau and Jack Lemmon.
In 1991, Loren received an honorary Academy Award for her contribution to world cinema and was declared "one of the world cinema's treasures".
Sophia Loren was portrayed by Sonia Aquino in the 2004 biopic The Life and Death of Peter Sellers, as well as by Silvia Vrij in a 1980 film entitled Dirty Picture.
Notes * Received an Oscar for Best Actress for the 1960 film Two Women.
* Often appeared in film with Marcello Mastroianni
* Her childhood nickname: "Toothpick"
* Other notable film roles were: Jimena (Charlton Heston's love interest) in El Cid; Lucilla in The Fall of the Roman Empire with Alec Guinness; and Aldonza/Dulcinea in Man of La Mancha with Peter O'Toole.
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