For me, it is good to be vulnerable. It makes me nice... weak sometimes, but in a good way, not a tragic way.

As far as beauty is concerned, in order to be confident we must accept that the way we look and feel is our own responsibility.

Though poor and anxious to work, I refused to alter anything. They would take me as I looked or not at all.... Eventually I profited by looking like myself and not like what was fashionable years ago with certain film technicians in Rome.

Mistakes are the price of an interesting life.

Success, I would find out, is interior. It has to do with self-fulfillment and the joy of living.

My philosophy is that it's better to explore life and make mistakes than to play it safe and not to explore at all.

[William] Klein has eyes like a knife. He is ruthless and outrageous but never mean - he is tender and funny and violent - and, I'm sure, really in love with our crazy Rome.