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

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

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

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.

What keeps my heart awake is colorful silence.

My father says you remember the smell of your country no matter where you are but only recognize it when you're far away.

There is nothing I need so much as nourishment for my Self Esteem

Seventeen whiskeys. A record, I think.

I'm really lucky because my mom is a good beauty muse.

If anything is possible, then nothing is interesting

The only wealth is life.

You don't pick who you fall in love with. There are so few people to love. It's hard for one adult to even like another. Almost impossible.

I live my life with no regrets. Each decision of mine has define my life in a certain way

Life inflicts the same setbacks and tragedies on the optimist as on the pessimist, but the optimist weathers them better.