I can't tell you that I like getting older, but I think I can cope with it because everybody gets older. Sometimes it's a little upsetting because time goes by and you want to do more and you have to accept life for what it is and find some new motivation that gives you drive and enthusiasm.

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.

Success, I would find out, is interior. It has to do with self-fulfillment and the joy of living.

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

The fantasy of a man is the best weapon of a woman.

I don't go for films that exalt violence. I don't want them in my house. Sometimes my children see them. But nowadays they do it so truthfully and with so much passion that you are shocked.

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