Luck assists fortune, you need to catch the moment. Otherwise the opportunity fades.

Learn to use your brains as deftly as your powder box, and then maybe you have a powder box and do not need.

No press conference announcing a last film. I'd just steal away. Best way because, if by chance after two or three years something interesting comes up, I would not - like Sinatra - have to say: 'Well, I've thought it over and decided to come back.'

I can't bear being seen naked. I'm not exactly a tiny woman. When Sophia Loren is naked, this is a lot of nakedness.

I work when I feel like I can do something that pleases me, that I think I can give a little more than I've given up to yesterday.

Beauty is in you and is reflected in your eyes. It is not material.

I am against all war.