I've done everything. I've sung, done records, plays... It just so happened my first professional job was as a dancer. I've done the whole shebang, darling. But dancing was my first professional engagement in 1974. I got paid for it, so that was it, my vocation. But my parents weren't keen. They wanted me to be an accountant in Italy. Or a lawyer. They were furious. I had to run away. I had to leave the country.

I eat well, but I don't believe in diets.

I think a lot of people have a vision of L.A. in which TV executives and movie directors plan their latest productions by the swimming pool.

I love contemporary art, although I wouldn't want a pickled shark in my house.

When people speak their own language you get a much better sense of who they are.

I'm with people all the time so I often go away on my own.

In reality, nobody gets successful in America by being lazy.