Famous Sophia Loren Quotations

"Everything you see I owe to spaghetti."

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 much further than people with vastly superior talent."

by Sophia Loren

"Getting ahead in a difficult profession -- singing, acting, writing, whatever -- requires avid faith in yourself. You must be able to sustain yourself against staggering blows and unfair reversals. When I think back to those first couple of years in Rome, those endless rejections, without a glimmer of encouragement from anyone, all those failed screen tests, and yet I never let my desire slide away from me, my belief in myself and what I felt I could achieve."

by Sophia Loren

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

by Sophia Loren

"It is a great advantage for a system of philosophy to be substantially true."

by Sophia Loren

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

by Sophia Loren

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

by Sophia Loren

"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."

by Sophia Loren

"Sophia Loren is not a citizen."

by Phil Gramm