my life has been wonderful. I have done what I felt like. I was given courage and I was given adventure and that has carried me along. And then also a sense of humor and a little bit of common sense. It has been a very rich life.

Cancer victims who don't accept their fate, who don't learn to live with it, will only destroy what little time they have left.

The best way to keep young is to keep going in whatever it is that keeps you going. With me that's work, and a lot of it. And when a job is finished, relax and have fun.

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

You must train your intuition - you must trust the small voice inside you which tells you exactly what to say, what to decide.

I won't do this movie because I don't believe the love story," she told Selznick. "The heroine is an intellectual woman, and an intellectual woman simply can't fall in love so deeply.

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