The most indespensible ingredient of all good home cooking: love for those you are cooking for.

You cannot say, because I am from Naples so I like the mixture of drama and comedy all together.

Mistakes are a part of the dues one pays for a full life.

Is my mother my friend? I would have to say, first of all she is my Mother, with a capital 'M'; she's something sacred to me. I love her dearly...yes, she is also a good friend, someone I can talk openly with if I want to.

Physical exercise makes you more graceful. After some gymnasitics you walk as if the whole street is yours.

When I was a child, fear was common to my life - fear of having nothing to eat, fear of the other children taunting me at school because I was illegitimate, and particularly fear of the big bombers appearing overhead and dropping their lethal bursts from the sky.

The most indespensible ingredient of all good home cooking: love for those you are cooking for.