Just give the Italians a chance for drama and they take it with both hands.

The first time an autograph hunter told me, 'You are my mother's favorite actress,' I aged twenty years.

I've never sought success in order to get fame and money; it's the talent and the passion that count in success.

On acting to daughter Isabella Rossellini: Keep it simple. Make a blank face and the music and the story will fill it in.

A kiss is a secret told to the mouth instead of the ear; kisses are the messengers of love and tenderness.

I have had my different husbands, my families. I am fond of them all and I visit them all. But deep inside me there is the feeling that I belong to show business.

I do not know how to kiss, or I would kiss you. Where do the noses go?