Sofia Villani Scicolone (Sophia Loren) Quotes
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.
Quotes to Explore
-
I swear allegiance to the Republic of Sudan.
-
It's nature-nurture, right? I've been nurtured by Californians.
-
I am more afraid of those who are terrified of the devil than I am of the devil himself.
-
I do a movie once every four years and they call it a comeback.
-
The first thing I look at is, 'Is the entrepreneur going after really big problems, to the extent that it feels scary when they talk about it?' You wonder if the idea is possible. I have seen that a lot of times, people go after small problems, and that's a sign that they are not confident.
-
I got beat up up in Texas because my bootlaces were the wrong color.
-
Customers are enormously punishing when companies don't meet their expectations.
-
On radio, you're in your own little world. Every time I'd be doing a possible no-hitter - I think I've done something like 25 no-hitters and a couple of perfect games - I would always put the date on the tape. Not for me, but for the player, so that 25 or 30 years later when he's playing it for his kids or grandkids, you have that date.
-
I do my own thing. And I believe what I do is the right thing.
-
Different directors offer you different things, and it's not necessarily the most obvious things.
-
Each age, it is found, must write its own books; or rather, each generation for the next succeeding.
-
I love to play with the notion of who the protagonist is - who is the audience supposed to root for? I did it in 'Sicario' and feel it was the strength of the script - guiding the audience's allegiance toward the villain because they think he's the hero, until it's revealed that he's the villain.
-
The coolest thing about the series is that we stay very true to the books; it would be silly for us not to, because the books are exactly what the fans want to see. There's an action side to it, which I love, and there are werewolves now. There aren't just vampires. There's a wolf pack.
-
I distracted myself from the fear and terrorism by thinking about things like how the universe began and whether time travel is possible.
-
Lotteries, a tax upon imbeciles.
-
You're meant to be playing the distillation of evil, which can be anything.
-
At this moment, the laurel bush, which had hitherto not spoken, said 'Psst!'
-
The informality of family life is a blessed condition that allows us all to become our best while looking our worst.
-
Many people treat their bodies as if they were rented from Hertz - something they are using to get around in but nothing they genuinely care about understanding.
-
You can get ahead in the world. But you will have to work, you will have to want tremendously to accomplish something, and then be willing to pay the price. Are you willing?
-
As long as I have ambition, maybe I can achieve something for my country.
-
It's great to express yourself and tell other people's stories and get into the minds of people who aren't like you.
-
Well-being cannot exist just in your own head. Well-being is a combination of feeling good as well as actually having meaning, good relationships and accomplishment.
-
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.
