I am often late for planes. The airlines know me now, they call at home and ask, 'How much later will you be today?

We are all born to die—the difference is the intensity with which we choose to live.

A woman at 20 is like ice, at 30 she is warm and at 40 she is hot.

Glamour is when a man knows a woman is a woman.

I have experience seducing nephews.

Love - the best cosmetics.

I do what I like now. I just don't have time for it all.

I studied painting and sculpting at school and became an actress by mistake .... I've had many lovers and still have romances. I am very spoiled. All my life, I've had too many admirers.

Popularity has a bright side, it unlocks many doors. But the truth is that I don't like it very much because it changes the private life into a very small thing.

Sophia Loren plays peasants. I play ladies.

I want to leave a souvenir of my life.

Think people really want to know what's out there?""Probably not. People don't know what they want, Evelyn, or life wouldn't suck

It's a spirit that was given me and the relationships and meeting all these great people, Duke Ellington, Louis Armstrong; through Max I met a lot of people too. My first album was with Benny Carter.

I am the Ayatollah of rock 'n' rolla

He who lives without committing any folly is not so wise as he thinks. [Fr., Qui vit sans folie n'est pas si sage qu'il croit.]

In Positano, I like the San Pietro Hotel, which is run by a friend whose family has owned the hotel for more than 100 years.

The fool only is troublesome. A plan of sense perceives when he is agreeable or tiresome; he disappears the very minute before he would have been thought to have stayed too long.

I'm an amused observer. I don't bet or gamble; that's the worst thing.

One of the big mistakes I think we make in relationships is that we don't give our best energy to the people that matter most.

Leadership is Idealism in Action.

Progress in general seems to hold little interest for people who call themselves 'progressives.' What arouses them are denunciations of social failures and accusations of wrong-doing.