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.

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

What is more simple than to tell to a little boy, 'This is not the truth, it is a game?'

My mother and my father went to the cinema for the first time when I made my first movie in 1978.

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

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