Sometimes when you involve yourself in so many things, you can't do any of them well - and I like to do everything perfectly.

It's a mistake to think that once you're done with school you need never learn anything new.

I am against all war.

Cooking is an act of love, a gift, a way of sharing with others the little secrets -- 'piccoli segreti' -- that are simmering on the burners.

I have never judged myself by other people’s standards. I have always expected a great deal of myself, and if I fail, I fail myself.

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

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.