10 Great Quotes By Sophia Loren

10 Great Quotes By Sophia Loren The voluptuous Italian actress Sophia Loren has won over 50 awards for her movie roles, including seven Golden Globes, a Grammy, a BAFTA, and the first-ever Oscar for a non-English speaking performance and was just honored this week at a dinner by the Academy of Motion Pictures, Arts and Sciences.

The international screen legend, now 76, is also known for her winning words of wisdom—some funny, some inspirational. Here are 10 of our favorite quotes by Sophia Loren:

10 Great Quotes By Sophia Loren “A woman's dress should be like a barbed-wire fence: serving its purpose without obstructing the view.”

10 Great Quotes By Sophia Loren “Many people think they want things, but they don’t really have the strength, the discipline. They are weak. I believe that you get what you want if you want it badly enough.”

10 Great Quotes By Sophia Loren “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.”

10 Great Quotes By Sophia Loren “Mistakes are part of the dues one pays for a full life.”

10 Great Quotes By Sophia Loren “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.”

10 Great Quotes By Sophia Loren “The two big advantages I had at birth were to have been born wise and to have been born in poverty.”

10 Great Quotes By Sophia Loren “If you haven't cried, your eyes can't be beautiful.”

10 Great Quotes By Sophia Loren “Everything you see I owe to spaghetti.”

10 Great Quotes By Sophia Loren “Sex appeal is fifty percent what you’ve got and fifty percent what people think you’ve got.”

10 Great Quotes By Sophia Loren “The word ‘Action!’ frees me—the transformation is something I cannot explain—too much analysis might destroy it.”