I'd much rather eat pasta and drink wine than be a size 0.

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

Ignorance has its virtues; without it there'd be mighty little conversation.

Everything you live through helps to make you the person you are now.

I do 45 minutes a day of stretching and abdominals and I lift light weights of half a kilo. Otherwise, if you strain your muscles, then you have to be quiet and stay without any exercise for a long time. I do heavier weights gradually. I'm going to become Superwoman with oil on my muscles!

Getting ahead in a difficult profession requires avid faith in yourself.

It's necessary to have an energy that carries you forward. You need the will to live, to have a great curiosity. To look for the best in life, to find new interests.