I work when I feel like I can do something that pleases me, that I think I can give a little more than I've given up to yesterday.

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

I think the quality of sexiness comes from within. It is something that is in you or it isn't and it really doesn't have much to do with breasts or thighs or the pout of your lips.

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.

Everything you see I owe to spaghetti.

I firmly believe we can make our own miracles if we believe strongly enough in ourselves and our mission on earth.

Without my mother's ambition, her drive, I doubt that on my own I would have pushed myself out of Pozzuoli and into the frightening world that was faraway Rome.