"There is a fountain of youth: it is your mind, your talents, the creativity you bring to your life and the lives of the people you love. When you learn to tap this source, you will truly have defeated age."
"Beauty is how you feel inside, and it reflects in your eyes. It is not something physical."
"Sex appeal is fifty percent what you've got and fifty percent what people think you've got."
"Everything you see I owe to spaghetti."
"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."
Signorina Sophia Loren, Diva-above-all-Divas, is 90 years old today!
All hail.
I hope this post doesn't jinkx Sophia Loren's life expectancy. One of the greats still left.
ReplyDeleteOne of the very few classic-era superstars of the silver screen that has not departed for Fabulon. Long may she reign! Jx
DeletePS She's a mere stripling compared to others still with us such as Eva-Marie Saint, Rita Moreno, Dick Van Dyke or Clint Eastwood...
Sans Carlo Ponti, il n’y aurait pas de Sophia Loren.
ReplyDeleteIl a fait connâitre La Loren.
* d’Anjou
She was only 16 years old when they met, and he was 20 years older than her. I think the power dynamic was rather weighted in his favour, when he made her change her name and cast her in his films. She was beautiful, and could act! Jx
DeleteWords fail to descibe how much I Adore this woman !
ReplyDeleteShe is; Truly beautiful, Funny, Multi talented, A good wife and mother -
And I have her Cookery Book
I'm still waiting for you to cook a dish from it! Jx
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