Anna Magnani Quotes

Italy, Actress
March 7, 1908 – September, 26, 1973.

Anna Magnani (Italian pronunciation: [ˈanna maɲˈɲaːni]; 7 March 1908 – 26 September 1973) was an Italian stage and film actress. She won the Academy Award for Best Actress, along with four other international awards, for her portrayal of a Sicilian widow in The Rose Tattoo.

Also known as Stage Actor

Ah, the feeling you get holding a diamond in your hand! It seems to bore into your skin, to burn, to breathe. It's like holding a bit of the moon in your hand.

Anna Magnani
- Feeling
- Hand
- Moon
A divorcee is a women who got married so she didn't have to work, but now works so she doesn't have to get married.

Anna Magnani
- Work
- Women
- She

[To reporter who telephoned with news of her Oscar:] If you are joking me, I will get up immediately and kill you wherever you are.

Anna Magnani
- Up
- Kill
- Oscar
Please don't retouch my wrinkles. It took me so long to earn them.

Anna Magnani
- Long
Great passions, my dear, don't exist: they're liars fantasies. What do exist are little loves that may last for a short or a longer while.

Anna Magnani
- Great
- May
Children are like puppies: you have to keep them near you, and look after them, if you want their affection.

Anna Magnani
It's so unfair that we should die, just because we are born.

Anna Magnani
- Die
- Born