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

I am against all war.
Sophia Loren

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

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

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."
Sophia Loren

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.
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 so much further than people with vastly superior talent.
Sophia Loren

Everything you see I owe to spaghetti.
Sophia Loren