I didn't want to become an actress because the competition with my mother would have been to much to live up to.

I didn't want to become an actress because the competition with my mother would have been to much to live up to.

I was always fascinated by the infinite, strange and 'scandalous' ways that insects copulate.

Mama wrote a letter to my father saying' I want to work with you' and she ended the letter saying' in Italian I can only say ti amo( I love you)' and of course the press used that to say women are sexual predators, in 1949 they made a first film together,' Stromboli', and they fell in love and my mother became pregnant with my brother Roberto before she could obtain a divorce.

I believe in a set of values I cannot live by.

Food is a big part of my culture, so everyone knows how to cook. When I came to America and asked a babysitter to softboil an egg for my son and she didn't know how, I was shocked.

The reason of my life is not to be the most beautiful woman in the world.