At this moment, everyone is in crisis, not only in Italy but all over Europe. Only in America do they make films that are successful all over the world. In Europe, production is quite poor. We have three or four or five films, which is not enough.

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.

Believe me, it is actions that count.

Almost starve, but I don’t starve because I eat very much

The facts of life are that a child who has seen war cannot be compared with a child who doesn't know what war is except from television.

For me, it is good to be vulnerable. It makes me nice... weak sometimes, but in a good way, not a tragic way.

My mother taught me the most important principles, to be determined in life, to be disciplined, to be able to understand that there are some things that you can't do and other things you have to do, that you always have to be surrounded by love, that you have to be understanding.