I would like to thank my parents in Vergaio, a little village in Italy. They gave me the biggest gift: poverty.

It's a sign of mediocrity when you demonstrate gratitude with moderation.

When I first saw a Fellini movie, I came out of the movie theatre and decided to become a lawyer! I thought to myself, it's impossible to make something so beautiful!

To laugh or cry is the most beautiful thing in the world

You're serving. You're not a servant. Serving is a supreme art. God is the first servant. God serves men but he's not a servant to men. - Eliseo Orefice

The exquisite truth is to believe in something that maybe you know is a fiction, but you believe in it willingly.

Sometimes poetry, it is incomprehensible. But we need incomprehensible stuff! It is very healthy to talk about incomprehensible things! It is very healthy! We need it!

My duty is to try to reach beauty. Cinema is emotion. When you laugh you cry.

The most important thing is to continue to be yourself. The day after the Oscars, you have to get on with your life. To be honest and true to yourself.

I would like to be Jupiter, and lie down in the firmament and make love to everybody.

I remember in the circus learning that the clown was the prince, the high prince. I always thought that the high prince was the lion or the magician, but the clown is the most important.

When you know the inside stories, no matter how good looks the cover, you just cannot appreciate it...

You can, and you will. If you’re going to carry any belief, carry one that empowers you. Believe in your unlimited potential.

I want to deploy the leadership to meet the challenges that face us and to restore America's greatness.

What's great about [Guettel] is his very distinct voice as a composer. And that distinct voice is something worth cherishing and expressing so we just didn't want to screw that up.

If I felt like a fish out of water in my family, I felt like a fish on Mars in Adam’s circle.

The PoWs went through something so horrible, you don't know who's coming back.

Head Start is especially important to Latino children. Latino children make up more than one-third, 34 percent, of all those eligible for the program.

Who fears not to do ill fears the name, And free from conscience, is a slave to fame.

Architecture is my work, and Ive spent my whole life at a drawing board, but life is more important than architecture. What matters is to improve human beings.

I want to get an abortion. But my boyfriend and I are having trouble conceiving.