Sofia Villani Scicolone Quotes
-
True happiness is impossible without solitude.... I need solitude in my life as I need food and drink and the laughter of little children. Extravagant though it may sound, solitude is the filter of my soul. It nourishes me, and rejuvenates me. Left alone, I discovered that I keep myself good company.
-
Once I put myself into a thing, I do my utmost, my very, very best.
-
You must all, somewhere deep in your hearts, believe that you have a special beauty that is like no other and that is so valuable that you must not abandon it. Indeed, you must learn to cherish it.
-
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.
-
A dog is faithful, a woman never.
-
Men always marry younger girls, but sometimes when a women who's very mature marries a younger man, she's criticized. It needs to be corrected.
-
I hated my father all my life but in his final days I forgave him for all the suffering he caused us. As you grow older, marry, and have children of you own, you learn and forget. I do not forget easily, but I do forgive.
-
For me, it is good to be vulnerable. It makes me nice... weak sometimes, but in a good way, not a tragic way.
-
You really have to be satisfied with what you are and accept from life what it still very generously offers you - and notice it, and be glad for it.
-
Success, I would find out, is interior. It has to do with self-fulfillment and the joy of living.
-
Almost starve, but I don’t starve because I eat very much
-
I have never judged myself by other people’s standards. I have always expected a great deal of myself, and if I fail, I fail myself.
-
Beauty is in you and is reflected in your eyes. It is not material.
-
I've never tried to block out the memories of the past, even though some are painful. I don't understand people who hide from their past. Everything you live through helps to make you the person you are now.
-
No press conference announcing a last film. I'd just steal away. Best way because, if by chance after two or three years something interesting comes up, I would not - like Sinatra - have to say: 'Well, I've thought it over and decided to come back.'
-
You have to enjoy life. Always be surrounded by people that you like, people who have a nice conversation. There are so many positive things to think about.
-
William Klein has eyes like a knife. He is ruthless and outrageous but never mean - he is tender and funny and violent - and, I'm sure, really in love with our crazy Rome.
-
You have to be born a sex symbol. You don't become one. If you're born with it, you'll have it even when you're 100 years old.
-
A mother always thinks twice: for herself and for the child
-
Sometimes you feel a need to express yourself, and there is no better way than to go to places where people need everything. It's dramatic, it's tragic. You just can't understand why, in the world of today, there are still things like that. The images you see on TV kill you. Of course when you are there (at these trouble spots) you can't turn off the TV. You are face-to-face with reality.
-
I'm a very shy person and I never tried to do theater.
-
My philosophy is that it's better to explore life and make mistakes than to play it safe and not to explore at all.
-
It's necessary to have an energy that carries you forward. You need the will to live, to have a great curiosity. To look for the best in life, to find new interests.
-
I firmly believe we can make our own miracles if we believe strongly enough in ourselves and our mission on earth.