You must all, somewhere deep in your hearts, believe that you have a special beauty that is like no other and that is so valuable that you must not abandon it. Indeed, you must learn to cherish it.

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

I like to cook for my friends. It is an act of love because in cooking you can create so many plates and recipes, if you know how to - otherwise you make a mess - but I like it because it's like a ceremony. You cook for your friends and after, you drink wine and play cards.

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.

Learn to use your brains as deftly as your powder box, and then maybe you have a powder box and do not need.

I'm a very shy person and I never tried to do theater.

Sometimes you feel a need to express yourself, and there is no better way than to go to places where people need everything. It's dramatic, it's tragic. You just can't understand why, in the world of today, there are still things like that. The images you see on TV kill you. Of course when you are there (at these trouble spots) you can't turn off the TV. You are face-to-face with reality.