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.

Nothing makes a woman more beautiful than the belief that she is beautiful.

Until you lose your mother you don't know what it is.

Style must be adapted to the woman and not vice versa. The same can be said of clothes.

I'm a very shy person and I never tried to do theater.

Beauty is how you feel inside, and it reflects in your eyes. It is not something physical.

I have never judged myself by other people’s standards. I have always expected a great deal of myself, and if I fail, I fail myself.