I firmly believe we can make our own miracles if we believe strongly enough in ourselves and our mission on earth.

The Fountain of Youth is in your mind.

I have my own peculiar yardstick for measuring a man: Does he have the courage to cry in a moment of grief? Does he have the compassion not to hunt an animal? In his relationship with a woman, is he gentle? Real manliness is nurtured in kindness and gentleness, which I associate with intelligence, comprehension, tolerance, justice, education, and high morality. If only men realized how easy it is to open a woman's heart with kindness, and how many women close their hearts to the assaults of the Don Juans.

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.

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.

A mother always thinks twice: for herself and for the child

You cannot say, because I am from Naples so I like the mixture of drama and comedy all together.