With the turmoil, with the vicissitudes, with the pain we inflict on each other, love is possible. Sometimes the roads cross and it's worth doing it. Go for it, it's worth it.

Real elegance is simply a true encounter with oneself.

Political debate is of no interest to me. What I want are practical solutions.

I didn't learn a lot from books. I learned a lot from movies.

What bothers you isn't so much whether you're beautiful or not. What bothers you is the way that people stare.

I'm attached to my land in Pantelleria as if I'd inherited it. Acting is my job, Pantelleria is my home.

Wine is connected to abundance.

Experience has shown, and a true philosophy will always show, that a vast, perhaps the larger, portion of truth arises from the seemingly irrelevant.

Art is the social antithesis of society, not directly deducible from it.

Still, he couldn’t reconcile with the way he felt every time their eyes met, a feeling he had never forgotten that resonated with his very being.

But that was New Orleans for you. The old didn’t die here. They were just forgotten.

There are 31.536.000 seconds in a year. I am counting down every second.

That's what fame is: solitude.

Everything I write, I read out loud. It has to sound a certain way. It has to look a certain way on the page.

I lied to everybody. I lie very well, being an actress, naturally.

The universe always gives you what you need to grow into the person you are destined to become.