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

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.

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

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.

Wine is connected to abundance.

I wouldn't burden any decent system of faith by participating in it... I'm not agnostic. Just nonpartisan. Theological Switzerland, that's me.

Your level of self-confidence in life is determined by the whole quality of your life”.

Dreams are symbolic in order that they cannot be understood; in order that the wish, which is the source of the dream, may remain unknown.

Beauty has as many meanings as man has moods.

Transmitting one's flaws [through procreation] to someone else is a crime. I could never consent to give life to someone who would inherent my ailments.

There are always a few people who are hyper-normal.

A wet dog is lovingest.

Architecture ... the adaptation of form to resist force.

In the fullness of time, I suspect that bigotry against homosexuals will seem as repugnant as racial prejudice does today. Or so one hopes.

I am savage enough to prefer the woods, the wilds, and the independence of Monticello, to all the brilliant pleasures of this gaycapital [Paris].