My current companion, Gerard de Battista, is the father of my two sons.

You can fake your age or mask it, but the passion that moves the characters has to be real.

Acting is the work of two people - it's only possible when you have the complicity, the help, even the manipulation of a director.

When I said I was going to audition for a film, I got a hearty laugh from all my family.

I chose the most explosive dress I could find. I put a ton of makeup on and some great round earrings. I looked like Jennifer Jones in Duel in the Sun.

Compared to dancing, films seemed to me to be the work of lay bums. There was no physical pain; it was enough to say and imagine what was in the script. It was very easy for me.

When you have to get into the character each morning, give it your voice, your face, it was torture.

My first vocation was dance.

On my fifth film, it was then that I stopped dancing.

The director took my face in his hands and asked me to show him my teeth, as with a horse. This happened on a Wednesday, and by the following Monday I was shooting.

Keep your ears open, your eyes open, grab everything you can, react, and learn!

The positioning of the mind is what makes the difference between the failures and the successes.

Socialism always produces evil results, no matter one's intentions.

If an animal does something, we call it instinct. If we do the same thing for the same reason, we call it intelligence.

If you are a complete perfectionist, then the truth is that this ice skating business will drive you a little crazy!

All our anxieties relate to time.

What concerns me when I work, is not whether the picture is a landscape, or whether it's pastoral, or whether somebody will see a sunset in it. What concerns me is - did I make a beautiful picture?

What is possible and what is not possible is not objectively known but is, rather, a subjective belief on the part of the author and of the reader.

Song is the licensed medium for bawling in public things too silly or sacred to be uttered in ordinary speech.

I've always written stuff based on personal experience, but I've always disguised it by the use of characters.

I wondered if the life that was right for one was ever right for two!