Cooking is an act of love, a gift, a way of sharing with others the little secrets -- 'piccoli segreti' -- that are simmering on the burners.

Everything you see I owe to spaghetti.

If you can learn to use your mind as well as your powder puff, you will become more truly beautiful.

Sometimes when you involve yourself in so many things, you can't do any of them well - and I like to do everything perfectly.

Film is just a mirror of the society we live in.

Sex is like washing your face - just something you do because you have to. Sex without love is absolutely ridiculous. Sex follows love, it never precedes it.

You do not become a star, you are born a star. A star is born with that indefinable extra something.