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Sophia Loren
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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.
— As quoted in Hope Notes : 52 Meditations to Nudge Your World (2004) by Wayne Willis, p. 11.
Sophia Loren
Italian actress (born 1934)
- Fame73.7
- Momentum0.0
- Italy rank#113
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- Fame73.7
- Momentum0.0
- Italy rank#113
- Actors rank#235
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Born 1934 · age 92Italy
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She broke the Oscar barrier in 1961, winning Best Actress for an Italian-language performance when Hollywood still barely looked past English. Seven decades later, Loren remains the last living name on the American Film Institute's canonical star list—a final tether to the era when European glamour could rewrite the rules.
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Born Sofia Scicolone in 1934, she entered a beauty pageant as a teenager and was steered toward acting lessons. Bit parts at 16 gave way to a five-picture Paramount contract in 1956 that made her an international fixture and one of the defining sex symbols of the 1950s. Then came Two Women in 1960, directed by Vittorio De Sica: her turn as Cesira earned the first-ever Academy Award for a non-English-language performance. Seven David di Donatello Awards followed, along with a second Oscar nomination for Marriage Italian Style, special Golden Globes, and honors at Venice and Cannes. By the 1980s…
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Sophia Loren
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Nothing makes a woman more beautiful than the belief that she is beautiful.
— As quoted in The Subtlety of Emotions (2001) by Aaron Ben-Ze'ev, p. 204.
Sophia Loren
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Sex appeal is fifty percent what you've got and fifty percent what people think you've got.
— As quoted in Halliwell’s Filmgoer’s Companion (1984) Leslie Halliwell
Sophia Loren
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Beauty is how you feel inside, and it reflects in your eyes. It is not something physical.
— As quoted in Morrow's International Dictionary of Contemporary Quotations (1982) by Jonathon Green, p. 340.
Sophia Loren
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A woman's dress should be like a barbed-wire fence: serving its purpose without obstructing the view.
— Quoted on Good Morning, America ABC TV (10 August 1979).
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- European Cultural Award
- Order of Saint Agatha
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