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

You do not become a star, you are born a star. A star is born with that indefinable extra something.

My mother was so beautiful, she really was a a wonderful person. Always walking like a queen. Like she owned the world. Maybe I took something from her.

I don't like to go in places where women talk and gossip. The atmosphere I don't like, even though you can sometimes meet nice people. For me, it's a waste of time.

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.

Sex appeal is 50% what you've got and 50% what people think you've got.

Transformation is something I cannot explain - too much analysis might destroy it.