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1 Notes

• Received an Oscar for the 1961 film Two Women.
• Often appeared with Marcello Mastroianni
• Her childhood nickname: " Toothpick"
• Other notable film roles were: Jimena ( Charlton Heston's love interest) in El Cid; Lucilla in The Fall of the Roman Empire with Alec Guinness; and Aldonza/Dulcinea in Man of La ManchaMan of La Mancha is a 1965 Broadway musical which tells the story of the classic novel Don Quixote as a play within a play, performed by Miguel Cervantes and his fellow prisoners as he awaits a hearing with the Spanish Inquisition. The book was by Dale Wa with Peter O'ToolePeter Seamus O'Toole (born August 2, 1932) is a famous Irish film actor. Born in County Galway, Ireland, he was raised in Leeds, England. He left school young and worked at the Yorkshire Evening News becoming a journalist. But after National Service he at.

2 Quotes

• "Mistakes are a part of the dues one pays for a full life."
• "Sex appeal is 50% what you've got and 50% what people think you've got."
• When asked why she stopped doing nude scenes: "When Sophia Loren is naked, that is a lot of nakedness."
• "A woman's dress should be like a barbed-wire fence: serving its purpose without obstructing the view."
• "Everything you see I owe to spaghetti."
• "Getting ahead in a difficult profession requires avid faith in yourself. That is why some people with mediocre talent, but with great inner drive, go much further than people with vastly superior talent."
• "It's a mistake to think that once you're done with school you need never learn anything new."
• "The two big advantages I had at birth were to have been born wise and to have been born in poverty."
• "If you haven't cried, your eyes can't be beautiful."

3 External links

• Official website
• IMDb filmography
• http://www.geocities.com/loren_sophia/
• http://www.divasthesite.com/Acting_Divas/Sophia_Loren.htm