Sofia Villani Scicolone (Sophia Loren) Quotes

Show business is what I do, not what I am.

Sofia Villani Scicolone

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• I wasn't eating. I wasn't sleeping. All I was doing was cocaine. I stayed awake for about two weeks, locked in my bedroom. I went down from a 142 pounds to 110 pounds.

  

  Andy Gibb
  • Eating
  • Sleeping
  • Cocaine

• Bills should be paid cheerfully, all money should be sent forth fearlessly and with a blessing.

  

  Florence Scovel Shinn
  • Money
  • Paid
  • Bills

• We're putting this out and making decisions later. It's certainly possible. That's the principle: We do not want to lock this information.

  

  Salar Kamangar
  • Decisions
  • Making
  • Later

• Perhaps the pleasure one feels in writing is not the infallible test of the literary value of a page; perhaps it is only a secondary state which is often superadded, but the want of which can have no prejudicial effect on it. Perhaps some of the greatest masterpieces were written while yawning.

  

  Marcel Proust
  • Value
  • Masterpieces
  • Yawning

• It’s important to have your private enjoyments because sometimes that’s all we have.

  

  Kay Ryan
  • Important
  • Enjoyments
  • All We Have

• I am much perturbed by this business of sickness. Our bodies seem so easily to leap into the saddle where our minds should be. People who are ill become changelings.

  

  Winifred Holtby
  • Business
  • Sickness
  • Changeling

• It's really not that hard. If I do a Tonight Show, it's six or seven minutes. If I do a concert, it's 90 minutes. If I do an interview, that's 15 minutes. So by the end of the day I've done three hours worth of work.

  

  Howie Mandel
  • Comedy
  • Hours
  • Minutes

• O my soul, how can you refrain from plunging yourself ever deeper and deeper into the love of Christ, who did not forget you in life or in death, but who willed to give Himself wholly to you, and to unite you to Himself forever?

  

  Angela of Foligno
  • Soul
  • Christ
  • Give

• I have an extra set of eyelashes because you never know. I could cry or laugh, or it could be windy, and I'll need a standby pair.

  

  Niecy Nash
  • Needs
  • Laughing
  • Cry

• Play because it's fun, and not to become a pro. If your goal is to become pro, the best way to realize that is by loving what you do.

  

  Steve Nash
  • Fun
  • Play
  • Loving

• We're kind of frustrated right now. We're willing to try anything to solve this.

  

  Joe Gibbs
  • Problem
  • Decision
  • Frustration

• What's the challenge in writing a novel that few people will read? I'm more than happy writing what I do and have no plans to change that.

  

  Nicholas Sparks
  • Writing
  • Change
  • Challenge

• I've been in showbusiness all my life, but as an actress I have never been overly driven.

  

  Jamie Lee Curtis
  • My Life
  • Actress
  • Show Business

• I got a little bit lost in the writing process: like, that moment in the 'Fight Song' music video where I'm throwing the crumpled paper on the bed, that was really true life. I was filling journals with different possibilities of lyrics for the first verse. And none of them felt right.

  

  Rachel Platten
  • Life
  • Music
  • Different

• I pretty much only write by default, because I want to make certain projects so instead of trying to wait and find them, I create them, but I'm not really a writer.

  

  Sara Gilbert
  • Writing
  • Trying
  • Waiting

• I used to smoke marijuana. But I'll tell you something: I would only smoke it in the late evening. Oh, occasionally the early evening, but usually the late evening - or the mid-evening. Just the early evening, midevening and late evening. Occasionally, early afternoon, early mid-afternoon, or perhaps the late-midafternoon. Oh, sometimes the early-mid-late-early morning. . . But never at dusk!

  

  Steve Martin
  • Funny
  • Sometimes
  • Humor

• Show business is what I do, not what I am.

  

  Sofia Villani Scicolone
  • Show Business