There's no pleasure in working if you don't do the things you want to do.

Ignorance has its virtues; without it there'd be mighty little conversation.

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

Many people think they want things, but they don't really have the strength, the discipline. They are weak. I believe that you get what you want if you want it badly enough.

Sometimes you feel a need to express yourself, and there is no better way than to go to places where people need everything. It's dramatic, it's tragic. You just can't understand why, in the world of today, there are still things like that. The images you see on TV kill you. Of course when you are there (at these trouble spots) you can't turn off the TV. You are face-to-face with reality.

Without my mother's ambition, her drive, I doubt that on my own I would have pushed myself out of Pozzuoli and into the frightening world that was faraway Rome.

A mother has to think twice, once for herself and once for her child.