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

It's a sign of mediocrity when you demonstrate gratitude with moderation.

The exquisite truth is to believe in something that maybe you know is a fiction, but you believe in it willingly.

My father was a farmer and my mother was a farmer, but, my childhood was very good. I am very grateful for my childhood, because it was full of gladness and good humanity.

I do not think the American peoples are idiots. They are a very playful and sensitive people! I know them!

To be in front of an audience and pretending, and to lie, this is the principle of acting.

There is nothing more beautiful in the world, enough to lose one's head. A sunset with a long nose, a starry sky that lies, a river searching for its father, a beautiful blue forest. It makes you laugh, it makes you cry, it's very mean, generous, magical, universal, a picture of freedom, of unrestrained desire to live, of pain and joy - a joy so powerful and sweet that it restores the souls in every spot on earth. The story of Pinocchio - nothing more beautiful in the world.