My mother taught me to walk proud and tall 'as if the world was mine.'

When I was a child, fear was common to my life - fear of having nothing to eat, fear of the other children taunting me at school because I was illegitimate, and particularly fear of the big bombers appearing overhead and dropping their lethal bursts from the sky.

My mother taught me the most important principles, to be determined in life, to be disciplined, to be able to understand that there are some things that you can't do and other things you have to do, that you always have to be surrounded by love, that you have to be understanding.

It [winning Oscar] is the most important event in the career of an actor, an extraordinary moment, beautiful. Some people live their whole life just to win an Oscar.

If you haven't cried, your eyes can't be beautiful.

A dog is faithful, a woman never.

You really have to be satisfied with what you are and accept from life what it still very generously offers you - and notice it, and be glad for it.