I think the quality of sexiness comes from within. It is something that is in you or it isn't and it really doesn't have much to do with breasts or thighs or the pout of your lips.

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.

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.

I still like me, inside and out. Not in a vain way - I just feel good in my skin.

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 not Italian, I am Neapolitan! It's another thing!

Learn to use your brains as deftly as your powder box, and then maybe you have a powder box and do not need.