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You cannot say, because I am from Naples so I like the mixture of drama and comedy all together.
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At the dressing table, every woman has a chance to be an artist, and art, as Aristotle said, 'completes what nature left unfinished.'
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I can't tell you that I like getting older, but I think I can cope with it because everybody gets older. Sometimes it's a little upsetting because time goes by and you want to do more and you have to accept life for what it is and find some new motivation that gives you drive and enthusiasm.
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Film is just a mirror of the society we live in.
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I was so skinny, they gave me the nickname stechetto - the stick. I was tall, thin, ugly and dark like an Arab girl. I looked strange. All eyes. No flesh on my bones.
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It is very important for an actor or actress to look around at everything and everyone and never forget about real life.
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As far as beauty is concerned, in order to be confident we must accept that the way we look and feel is our own responsibility.
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Everything you see I owe to spaghetti.
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I wake up very early every morning and I have my coffee at 6:30. If it comes at 6:35, I'm very upset. I don't say anything but I'm upset because I'm so punctual in doing things, that if I lose five minutes I have to rush everything.
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The girl who swears no one has ever made love to her has a right to swear.
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I still don't know what I want to do when I grow up.
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Isn't it wonderful to be alive? You know, you can forget all about it. Then suddenly you remember, and think of all the things you can do. Here I am. I can walk around. I can talk. I can see things and remember things. I am alive. How wonderful!
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And as I walk round the park I always think, 'Maybe round the corner I am going to find something beautiful.' I always think positively. It is very rare that you find me in a mood that is sad or melancholic.
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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.
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The fantasy of a man is the best weapon of a woman.
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Where youthful beauty is unconscious, mature beauty is knowing and sophisticated.
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I am lucky. I had a very beautiful mother.
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When I'm walking along in the street, I always feel that around the corner,there is something wonderful waiting for me. That's my attitude.
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I don't go for films that exalt violence. I don't want them in my house. Sometimes my children see them. But nowadays they do it so truthfully and with so much passion that you are shocked.
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Beauty is how you feel inside, and it reflects in your eyes. It is not something physical.
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I work when I feel like I can do something that pleases me, that I think I can give a little more than I've given up to yesterday.
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I think what you have inside reflects very much in your face, in your expression. If you can find a kind of equilibrium in life, you never really get old, because you have that kind of ingenuity and innocence inside that gives you that brightness and that glint in your eye that generally, getting older, you lose.
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Once I put myself into a thing, I do my utmost, my very, very best.
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There is no greater love potion than regular coffee, brewed his own. When a man tries it, he was not going anywhere.