I'm attached to my land in Pantelleria as if I'd inherited it. Acting is my job, Pantelleria is my home.

Acting is our job, not talking about it. In France, they know me like I belong to their family. I go somewhere and I feel like Im sometimes the aunt, the grandmother, the mother, the sister. They all know me. But its not supposed to be that way.

With the turmoil, with the vicissitudes, with the pain we inflict on each other, love is possible. Sometimes the roads cross and it's worth doing it. Go for it, it's worth it.

I didn't learn a lot from books. I learned a lot from movies.

I did get offers from Hollywood, but they were all scripts with monsters in them. If I had done them, I would have disappeared. I would have come back to France anyway, and I would have had to start all over again and lost a lot of time.

Political debate is of no interest to me. What I want are practical solutions.

What bothers you isn't so much whether you're beautiful or not. What bothers you is the way that people stare.