I am like a cartoon strip; I am like Donald Duck; everybody knows me in Italy.

My duty is to try to reach beauty. Cinema is emotion. When you laugh you cry.

It's me, it's my habit to perform live onstage every four, five years. In Italy, it's my habit.

I thank my parents for the greatest gift of all: poverty

In Italy, the country where fascism was born, we have a particular relation with the Holocaust, but as a turning point in history it belongs to everybody in the world. It is a part of humanity.

You're serving. You're not a servant. Serving is a supreme art. God is the first servant. God serves men but he's not a servant to men. - Eliseo Orefice

Dante Alighieri has the most glorious imagination of modern poetry. So it's talking about us, it's concerning us. Everything in it conveys sentiment, emotions. He is really the greatest poet ever. So I am really very proud to present the shining pearl of Italian culture around the world.