I want to leave a souvenir of my life.

We are all born to die—the difference is the intensity with which we choose to live.

A woman at 20 is like ice, at 30 she is warm and at 40 she is hot.

Glamour is when a man knows a woman is a woman.

I have experience seducing nephews.

Love - the best cosmetics.

I do what I like now. I just don't have time for it all.

I studied painting and sculpting at school and became an actress by mistake .... I've had many lovers and still have romances. I am very spoiled. All my life, I've had too many admirers.

Popularity has a bright side, it unlocks many doors. But the truth is that I don't like it very much because it changes the private life into a very small thing.

I am often late for planes. The airlines know me now, they call at home and ask, 'How much later will you be today?

Sophia Loren plays peasants. I play ladies.

Marriage can wait, education cannot.

Better not to invent her in her absence. Better to wait until she's actually here. Then he can make her up as she goes along.

In a sense, discouragement does not have to exist. Allow it to be rather the encouragement to honestly reconsider all the options, then, as necessary, shine on.

I want the reader to turn the page and keep on turning to the end.

August 28th 2012. Remember that date. It marks the day when the world went raving mad.

Animals are not brethren, they are not underlings; they are other nations, caught with ourselves in the net of life and time.

There are three choices in life and sport - either you do it, you don't do it or you think about it. Most humans think about it. We will do it.

The weakest of all weak things is a virtue that has not been tested in the fire.

These have always been my legs. I train harder than other guys, eat better, sleep better and wake up thinking about athletics. I think that's probably why I'm a bit of an exception.

All readers come to fiction as willing accomplices to your lies. Such is the basic goodwill contract made the moment we pick up a work of fiction.