• Received 1961 Oscar for the film Two Women.
• Often appeared with Marcello Mastroianni
• Her childhood nickname: "Toothpick"

Quotes

• "Mistakes are a part of the dues one pays for a full life."
• "Sex appeal is 50% what you've got and 50% what people think you've got."
• When asked why she stopped doing nude scenes: "When Sophia Loren is naked, that is a lot of nakedness."
• "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."
• "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."
• "It's a mistake to think that once you're done with school you need never learn anything new."
• "The two big advantages I had at birth were to have been born wise and to have been born in poverty."
• "If you haven't cried, your eyes can't be beautiful."

Links

• http://www.sophialoren.com/ Official website
• http://www.geocities.com/loren_sophia/
• http://home2.planetinternet.be/verjans/Acting_Divas/Sophia_Loren.htm
  

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