- Loren may have made 100 films, been an international sex symbol for decades and even voted as the world's most beautiful woman, but she doesn't want to be called her a star - she said she just wants to be an actress. (September 2002)
- After years away, Sophia returned to the Venice Film Festival, not as just another glitter-celebrity waggling for the paparazzi, but in the role she holds dearest of all: doting mom - she was on hand Friday to promote the feature-film debut of her director son, Edoardo Ponti. (August 31, 2002)
- British men need smart no more from Gwyneth Paltrow's barb that they were wimps for not asking her out as Loren has come to their rescue.
- Sophia Loren and Marlon Brando co-starred in A COUNTESS FROM HONG KONG, a 1967 comedy.
- Franco Zeffirelli originally proposed LA BISBETICA DOMATA (1967) as a vehicle for Loren and Marcello Mastroianni.
- Her bit role as a slave marked her film debut in QUO VADIS? (1951).
- Is one of only four actors (with Robert De Niro, Roberto benigni, and Benicio Del Toro) to win an Academy Award for a role primarily in a language other than English, since almost all of his dialogue is in Italian.
- Nominated for Best Performance by an Actress in a Supporting Role in a Motion Picture at Golden Globe Awards for PRÊT-À-PORTER (1995)
- Nominated for World Film Favorite - Female at Golden Globe Awards (1977)
- Nominated for Best Actress in a Leading Role at Academy Awards for MARRIAGE ITALIAN-STYLE (1965)
- Nominated for Best Motion Picture Actress - Musical/Comedy at Golden Globe Awards for MARRIAGE ITALIAN-STYLE (1965)
Quotes- "I am an actress. A star and an actress are two different things."
- A woman's dress should be like a barbed-wire fence: serving its purpose without obstructing the view.
- "After all these years, I am still involved in the process of self-discovery. It's better to explore life and make mistakes than to play it safe. Mistakes are part of the dues one pays for a full life. "
- "Beauty is how you feel inside, and it reflects in your eyes. It is not something physical. "
- 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 so much further than people with vastly superior talent. "
- I am against all war.
- "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. "
- I think the quality of sexiness comes from within. It is something that is in you or it isn't and it really doesn't have much to do with breasts or thighs or the pout of your lips.
- "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."
- "I'm a giraffe. I even walk like a giraffe with a long neck and legs. It's a pretty dumb animal, mind you."
- It is a great advantage for a system of philosophy to be substantially true.
- It's a mistake to think that once you're done with school you need never learn anything new.
- "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. "
- Mistakes are part of the dues one pays for a full life.
- "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. "
- Sex appeal is 50% what you've got and 50% what people think you've got.
- "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."
- Spaghetti can be eaten most successfully if you inhale it like a vacuum cleaner.
- The facts of life are that a child who has seen war cannot be compared with a child who doesn't know what war is except from television.
- The two big advantages I had at birth were to have been born wise and to have been born in poverty.
- The word Action! frees me - the transformation is something I cannot explain - too much analysis might destroy it
- "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. "
- "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."
- "You have to be born a sex symbol. You don't become one. If you're born with it, you'll have it even when you're 100 years old."
Awards- Molodist International Film Festival: Festival Diploma - for or the contribution to the world cinema (2003)
- Montréal World Film Festival: Grand Prix Special des Amériques (2001)
- Art Film Festival: Actor's Mission Award (1999)
- David di Donatello Awards: Career David (1999)
- Venice Film Festival: Career Golden Lion (1998)
- Moscow International Film Festival: Silver St. George - Contribution to World Cinema (1997)
- ShoWest Convention: Lifetime Achievement Award (1996)
- Golden Camera (Germany): Golden Camera - for lifetime achievement (1995)
- Golden Globe Awards: Cecil B. DeMille Award (1995)
- Berlin International Film Festival: Honorary Golden Berlin Bear (1994)
- National Board of Review: Best Ensemble Performance, PRÊT-À-PORTER (1994)
- Academy Awards: Honorary Award (1991)
- César Awards: Honorary Award (1991)
- David di Donatello Awards: Special Plate (1984)
- Italian National Syndicate of Film Journalists: Silver Ribbon - Best Actress, UNA GIORNATA PARTICOLARE (1978)
- San Sebastián International Film Festival: Best Actress, THE VOYAGE (1974)
- Bambi Awards: Bambi (1969)
- Golden Globe Awards: World Film Favorite - Female (1969)
- Bambi Awards: Bambi (1968)
- Bambi Awards: Bambi (1967)
- Bambi Awards: Bambi (1965)
- Golden Globe Awards: World Film Favorite - Female (1965)
- Moscow International Film Festival: Best Actress, MARRIAGE ITALIAN-STYLE (1965)
- Bambi Awards: Bambi (1964)
- Golden Globe Awards: World Film Favorite - Female (1964)
- Bambi Awards: Bambi (1963)
- Bambi Awards: Bambi (1962)
- Academy Awards: Best Actress in a Leading Role, TWO WOMEN (1962)
- Italian National Syndicate of Film Journalists: Silver Ribbon - Best Actress, TWO WOMEN (1961)
- Bambi Awards: Bambi (1961)
- Cannes Film Festival: Best Actress, TWO WOMEN (1961)
- New York Film Critics Circle Awards: Best Actress, TWO WOMEN (1961)
- Venice Film Festival: Best Actress, THE BLACK ORCHID (1958)
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