Sofia Villani Scicolone (Sophia Loren) Quotes

Though poor and anxious to work, I refused to alter anything. They would take me as I looked or not at all.... Eventually I profited by looking like myself and not like what was fashionable years ago with certain film technicians in Rome.

Sofia Villani Scicolone

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• I love going back and forth from drama to comedy. I love switching it around and showing people that I can do both.

  

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• Fame is a delicate and dangerous creature; I saw people who didn't honor it, who refused to take responsibility for it, get destroyed by it. I also saw that stardom in and of itself was empty.

  

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• No man can purchase his virtue too dear, for it is the only thing whose value must ever increase with the price it has cost us. Our integrity is never worth so much as when we have parted with our all to keep it.

  

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• The principle though remains the same, and the important thing is CBS fought hard, very hard, to protect that principle and will fight again.

  

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• My working hypothesis is that stupidity in popular culture is a constant. Popular culture cannot get more stupid.

  

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• A coward is incapable of exhibiting love; it is the prerogative of the brave.

  

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• Here dead lie we because we did not choose to live and shame the land from which we sprung. Life, to be sure, is nothing much to lose; but young men think it is, and we were young.

  

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• It's a contract of connection to be in the same space and watch and listen to stories and be caught in them. When you're in a theater, your brain expands because somebody in the theater may do something or respond to something that you wouldn't have.

  

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• Reader loyalty will stay because I'm not changing.

  

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• Seattle is a place I've lived only a couple of years, but I feel like I've been adopted by this city. It's like a hug. I've been recognized on planes, in the airport and by cabdrivers. I don't get that anywhere else in the country.

  

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• For contemplation is both the highest form of activity, since the intellect is the highest thing in us, and the objects that it apprehends are the highest things that can be known, and also it is the most continuous, because we are more capable of continuous contemplation than we are of any practical activity.

  

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• Though poor and anxious to work, I refused to alter anything. They would take me as I looked or not at all.... Eventually I profited by looking like myself and not like what was fashionable years ago with certain film technicians in Rome.

  

  Sofia Villani Scicolone
  • Film
  • Poor
  • Certain