Everyone has a first love and mine was the western. When I was a child and dreamed of the movies, it was always as a cowboy on a white horse.

If you're a big Hollywood star, you make one movie a year at the most. I can make five in Europe.

could be a star and maybe make lots of money, or I could change roles all the time and have a more interesting - and longer - career.

I studied at the Piccolo Teatro di Milano: I was a theatre actor.

Left love behind many years ago. Now it rests under a cross in the cemetery in Tombstone.

Every western I did and will do; I will do it for the never ending young kid inside of me.

I'm crazy about westerns. I need to do a western once in a while. It's like you know, eating bread, eating pasta, drinking wine. It's in my blood. I need it.