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.

Beauty is no handicap if you don't think about it.

True love comes along after adolescence, when we have learned not to cry for nothing.

I am lucky. I had a very beautiful mother.

I can cook, I can breathe, I can live!

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

After all these years, I am still involved in the process of self-discovery. It's better to explore life and make mistakes than to play it safe. Mistakes are part of the dues one pays for a full life.