There is a fountain of youth: it is your mind, your talents, the creativity you bring to your life and the lives of the people you love. When you learn to tap this source, you will truly have defeated age.

Learn to use your brains as deftly as your powder box, and then, perhaps, powder box you will not need ... Know smart women men say beautiful - eyes snatched from the crowd and do not forget just charming.

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.

I'm a very shy person and I never tried to do theater.

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.

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

I still don't know what I want to do when I grow up.