Any woman who marries an Italian must accept the undeniable fact that she has also married his mother.

I spoke French a bit, and I could speak a bit of this and that, and when you were taught those things by people who couldn't really do it, you can do some pretty wonderfully, imaginative horrific things to teachers.

My father said, If you want to do acting, you have to be successful, which is a silly thing to say.

I didn't know what to do with myself. I wasn't excited by the teaching of the school. If they'd been intent on really teaching you things, I would have been a little more attentive.

Very quickly, without really looking back or trying, I was just suddenly lifted into another sphere.

Once, the parental bed collapsed because all the children sat on it at once.

You never came home for lunch: you just stayed doing, playing, having fun, surfing, running round.