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

If you've got a lot of children, I think you let the other children bring them up more and you just sort of step in and do stuff like every now and again.

I don't think in my family anyone looked after anyone. It didn't matter how old they were.

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

The best part of learning any profession, when you're really going through those huge stretching escalated times of learning and energy, is when you want to do it so much.

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

My mother felt it was time that I had some parental control, so I went off to America and went to New York.