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.

There is a fountain of youth: it is your mind, your talents, the creativity you bring to your life and the lives of the people you love. When you learn to tap this source, you will truly have defeated age.

I'm an actress. It's my passion.

You have to be born a sex symbol. You don't become one. If you're born with it, you'll have it even when you're 100 years old.

I still like me, inside and out. Not in a vain way - I just feel good in my skin.

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.

I do not know if I really am a big star. And in fact that is not the most important thing for me. What counts in life is to bring about more of your own dreams. In such a way that your life becomes like a fairy tale. This is what has happened to me, it is just like that.