I don't go for films that exalt violence. I don't want them in my house. Sometimes my children see them. But nowadays they do it so truthfully and with so much passion that you are shocked.

Physical exercise makes you more graceful. After some gymnasitics you walk as if the whole street is yours.

I can't bear being seen naked. I'm not exactly a tiny woman. When Sophia Loren is naked, this is a lot of nakedness.

I think what you have inside reflects very much in your face, in your expression. If you can find a kind of equilibrium in life, you never really get old, because you have that kind of ingenuity and innocence inside that gives you that brightness and that glint in your eye that generally, getting older, you lose.

When you are a mother, you are never really alone in your thoughts. A mother always has to think twice, once for herself and once for her child.

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

The facts of life are that a child who has seen war cannot be compared with a child who doesn't know what war is except from television.