Posted on 09/20/2014 6:19:30 PM PDT by combat_boots
I don't think she owed EVERYTHING to pasta. The camera loves her, all the same. http://feminema.files.wordpress.com/2011/05/tn2_sophia_loren_1.jpg
Here are some of Sophia Loren’s greatest quotes and insights:
• “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.”
• “The two big advantages I had at birth were to have been born wise and to have been born in poverty.”
• “You have to enjoy life. Always be surrounded by people that you like, people who have a nice conversation. There are so many positive things to think about.”
• “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.”
• “Beauty is how you feel inside, and it reflects in your eyes. It is not something physical.”
• “A woman’s dress should be like a barbed-wire fence: serving its purpose without obstructing the view.”
• “Everything you see I owe to spaghetti.”
My motto: Italian women, German cars, Mexican food, Irish music.
Your mileage may vary.
One of the most - if not THE most - gorgeous celebrity women ever.
It is her inner girlish-ness that really has been her charm to me. She exuded that especially so in her later years
I named my daughter Sophia after I asked my father who the epitome of a woman was and he quickly answered “Sophia Loren...elegant, beautiful, smart and sexy.” My mother was a little angry he didn’t say her.
Love that movie.
Still looks half her age (or less)...
El Cid was my favorite....my God, I fell in love with that woman.....
My ideal woman, Happy Birthday Sophia Loren!
The best Sophia Loren story I heard at a funeral. My neighbor, a great old guy, passed away. One of his friends recounted a story my neighbor loved to tell, but he hadn’t shared that one with me. When he was in the army, WWII, they were having some R and R in Italy, in a hotel bar in Rome, I believe, when he excused himself to go to the restroom. He had to go upstairs in an elevator. On the way back down, who should join him alone in that elevator but Sophia Loren, who was very sweet to the young American soldier. He dared to ask her if she’d come have a drink with him in the bar, where all his buddies could see, and dang if she didn’t say yes.
So he casually walked back into the bar with Miss Sophia Loren and sat far from his army buddies and had a grand time chatting and laughing with her. The looks on the faces of his friends were what kept him telling the story for fifty odd years.
GOOD LUCK hanging that puppy in a high school today!
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