Brazen Hussies Diva ~ Sophia Loren

"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."

"Everything you see I owe to spaghetti."

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

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

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

"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."

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

"It's a game I never play." (on adultery)

"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."

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

"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."

"I'm a giraffe. I even walk like a giraffe with a long neck and legs. It's a pretty dumb animal, mind you."

"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."