There is no greater love potion than regular coffee, brewed his own. When a man tries it, he was not going anywhere.

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 was so skinny, they gave me the nickname stechetto - the stick. I was tall, thin, ugly and dark like an Arab girl. I looked strange. All eyes. No flesh on my bones.

I hated my father all my life but in his final days I forgave him for all the suffering he caused us. As you grow older, marry, and have children of you own, you learn and forget. I do not forget easily, but I do forgive.

I was not interested in what I could bring to myself by being an actress, but in what I could bring out of myself.

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

I'm not Italian, I am Neapolitan! It's another thing!