To be in front of an audience and pretending, and to lie, this is the principle of acting.

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.

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.

Death is a common destination.

To find out a heart she'd believed irrevocably broken had somewhere along the way been fixed.

My prose is turgid, it just hasn't got any energy

I admire the abstract expressionists and pop artists so right now I'm referencing American '60s art and at the same time referencing Japanese manga culture.

Love is so painful, how could you ever wish it on anybody? And love is so essential, how could you ever stand in its way?

The more one is absorbed in fighting evil, the less one is tempted to place the good in question.

Storytelling is my currency. It's my only worth. The only thing of value I have in this life is my ability to tell a story, whether in print, orating, writing it down or having people acting it out.

Are you an idiot, or an idiot?' Gargarin hissed. 'The first one. I really resent being called the second.

I made the best business decision at 14 when I decided to get into acting. The worst was owning 2 homes at the same time.