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.

If you can learn to use your mind as well as your powder puff, you will become more truly beautiful.

Almost starve, but I don’t starve because I eat very much

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

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

At this moment, everyone is in crisis, not only in Italy but all over Europe. Only in America do they make films that are successful all over the world. In Europe, production is quite poor. We have three or four or five films, which is not enough.

I am lucky. I had a very beautiful mother.