Sofia Villani Scicolone (Sophia Loren) Quotes

For me, it is good to be vulnerable. It makes me nice... weak sometimes, but in a good way, not a tragic way.

Sofia Villani Scicolone

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• I think when you're a director, it's hard to do something unless you're absolutely over-the-moon in love with it. The audience, they spend 90 minutes with it, but for you, it's anywhere between a year and a half to three years of your life, every day, working on it.

  

  Adam Green
  • Life
  • Working
  • Director

• I've always loved working out. When I was little, my dad used to make me and my sister do 10 press-ups every day before we brushed our teeth in the morning. It was like a boot camp! Then I did a lot of athletics at school and was a dancer.

  

  Fleur East
  • School
  • Dad
  • Day

• AIPAC has consistently opposed a two-state solution, and a lot of members of Congress have been intimidated, and I don't think that's healthy.

  

  Zbigniew Brzezinski
  • Think
  • Healthy
  • Solution

• Eventually, I grew out of my interest in motorcycles because they're quite dangerous. I don't ride them anymore. But I have this history.

  

  Rachel Kushner
  • History
  • Dangerous
  • Ride

• I am especially grateful, however, to have known the fifties, before we began to poison our own civilization - or at least before the effects of the poison began to be felt.

  

  Orson Scott Card
  • Civilization
  • Felt
  • Poison

• I really think more fledgling novelists - and many current and even established novelists - should get out into the real world and cover local politics, sports, culture, and crime and write it up on deadline.

  

  C. J. Box
  • Up
  • World
  • Real

• I paint. I still do it every day. I never neglected it. It's a gift. It's almost like religion for me. It's the quickest way for me to become still.

  

  Taylor Negron
  • Day
  • Religion
  • Gift

• I have come to the conclusion that while a candidate's faith matters, what's most important is how he or she applies that faith.

  

  Gary Bauer
  • Important
  • Faith
  • Candidate

• If you're not careful, you can fall into a destructive cycle of self-pity.

  

  Victoria Osteen
  • You
  • Fall
  • Self-pity

• I used to have this fantasy when I was growing up where Princess Leia would be in the slave Leia costume and she would be in a vat of Breyer's ice cream. A recurring dream where I would eat my way to her.

  

  Dan Fogler
  • Up
  • She
  • Dream

• This is the other thing: we make the cost of raising kids higher than it has to be just because we feel they need all this stuff, like gadgets, certain schools, and activities that are nice but aren't really necessary.

  

  Patricia Heaton
  • Kids
  • Nice
  • Need

• I have had just an excess of energy. That's why I've always been active.

  

  Eden Sher
  • Why
  • Energy
  • Always

• I always try to be nice to the paparazzi because finally, maybe one day, they won't ask for me, and I will regret it.

  

  Carine Roitfeld
  • Nice
  • Day
  • Regret

• My father always had people around the house who were famous psychics.

  

  Natalie Massenet
  • People
  • Father
  • House

• Would Time but await the close of our favorite follies, we should all be young men, all of us, and until Doom's Day.

  

  Nathaniel Hawthorne
  • Time
  • Men

• My feeling is that the beaches should belong to everybody. Nobody should be able to build anything. It causes erosion. It's a bad thing altogether.

  

  Linda Ronstadt
  • Bad
  • Feeling
  • Erosion

• It's absolutely incredible, and his retirement should be a celebration more than anything else.

  

  Randy Cross
  • Retirement
  • Celebration
  • Incredible

• Conscientious and careful physicians allocate causes of disease to natural laws, while the ablest scientists go back to medicine for their first principles.

  

  Aristotle
  • Laws
  • Disease
  • Careful

• Paul Rudd is too perfect. He's super talented, super nice and super calm. I just think he's a robot.

  

  Nat Wolff
  • Think
  • Perfect
  • Nice

• One of my heroes is Mr. Sidney Poitier. In his autobiography, "The Measure of a Man," he talks about the difference between being a great person and being a great actor. I'm happiest when I'm acting, and I've dedicated my life to it. Still, as much as I love acting, at the end of the day, I want to be remembered as a great person, first, and as a great actor, second. I believe that acting is a talent while being a great person encompasses so much more: being a good father, a good husband and the ability to show compassion for others.

  

  Michael Ealy
  • Believe
  • Father
  • Husband

• For me, it is good to be vulnerable. It makes me nice... weak sometimes, but in a good way, not a tragic way.

  

  Sofia Villani Scicolone
  • Sometimes
  • Weak
  • Vulnerable