Sophia Loren Famous Quotes
Mistakes are part of the dues one pays for a full life.
"Getting ahead in a difficult profession -- singing, acting, writing, whatever -- requires avid faith in yourself. You must be able to sustain yourself against staggering blows and unfair reversals. When I think back to those first couple of years in Rome, those endless rejections, without a glimmer of encouragement from anyone, all those failed screen tests, and yet I never let my desire slide away from me, my belief in myself and what I felt I could achieve."
"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."
Sophia Loren Quotations
The secret of my success is that I always managed to live to fly another day.
Boutros BoutrosGhali
"If you don't have a sensation of apprehension when you set out to find a story and a swagger when you sit down to write it, you are in the wrong business."
A M Rosenthal
We're actors - we're the opposite of people.
Tom Stoppard
If only we'd stop trying to be happy we'd have a pretty good time.
Edith Wharton
Beware of over-great pleasure in being popular or even beloved.
Margaret Fuller
"To receive everything, one must open one's hands and give."
Taisen Deshimaru
"Es tan corto el amor, y tan largo el olvido."
Pablo Neruda
Lack of money is no obstacle. Lack of an idea is an obstacle.
Ken Hakuta
"I can tell you, honest friend, what to believe believe life it teaches better than book or orator."
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
I have never in my life learned anything from any man who agreed with me.
Dudley Field Malone