I don't go for films that exalt violence. I don't want them in my house. Sometimes my children see them. But nowadays they do it so truthfully and with so much passion that you are shocked.

Nothing makes a woman more beautiful than the belief that she is beautiful.

Beauty is how you feel inside, and it reflects in your eyes. It is not something physical.

Any woman can look her best if she feels good in her skin. It's not a question of clothes or makeup. It's how she sparkles.

I'd much rather eat pasta and drink wine than be a size 0.

You have to enjoy life. Always be surrounded by people that you like, people who have a nice conversation. There are so many positive things to think about.

The most indespensible ingredient of all good home cooking: love for those you are cooking for.

Everything you see I owe to spaghetti.

When you are a mother, you are never really alone in your thoughts. A mother always has to think twice, once for herself and once for her child.

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

A woman's dress should be like a barbed-wire fence: serving its purpose without obstructing the view.

It is never worth while to absolutely exhaust one's self or to take big chances unless for an adequate object.

Chaplin is no businessman - all he knows is that he can't take anything less.

Unlike Christianity which preached a peace that it never achieved Islam unashamedly came with a sword.

I've got a Ferrari 430. It's black. I don't know what it cost but it wasn't cheap. I bought it because I was being a boy. It's fast and looks good.

I think that's the moment when we all grow up, when we stop blaming our parents for the messes we've made out of our lives and start owning the consequences of our actions.

As long as I can still be on my own and do my own thing and be working full time, it's great.

The exercise of an extraordinary gift is the supremest pleasure in life.

I never fit in. I am a true alternative. And I love being the outcast. That's my role in life, to be an outcast.

There is health in table talk and nursery play. We must wear old shoes and have aunts and cousins.

Ridiculous stuff happens when I travel.