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.

Hate is unfulfilled love.

My mother was so beautiful, she really was a a wonderful person. Always walking like a queen. Like she owned the world. Maybe I took something from her.

The two big advantages I had at birth were to have been born wise and to have been born in poverty.

Believe me, it is actions that count.

You have to be born a sex symbol. You don't become one. If you're born with it, you'll have it even when you're 100 years old.

No press conference announcing a last film. I'd just steal away. Best way because, if by chance after two or three years something interesting comes up, I would not - like Sinatra - have to say: 'Well, I've thought it over and decided to come back.'