“The facts of life are that a child who has seen war cannot be compared with a child who doesn’t know what war is except from television.”

You have to enjoy life. Always be surrounded by people that you like, people who have a nice conversation. There are so many positive things to think about.

Nothing makes a woman more beautiful than the belief that she is beautiful.

Learn to use your brains as deftly as your powder box, and then, perhaps, powder box you will not need. Know smart women men say beautiful – eyes snatched from the crowd and do not forget just charming.

I was so skinny, they gave me the nickname stechetto – the stick. I was tall, thin, ugly and dark like an Arab girl. I looked strange. All eyes. No flesh on my bones.

Until you lose your mother you don’t know what it is.

I eat a lot of salad, a little meat, and some fruit—that’s all. But I like sweets.

Cooking is an act of love, a gift, a way of sharing with others the little secrets — ‘piccoli segreti’ — that are simmering on the burners.

Ignorance has its virtues; without it there’d be mighty little conversation.

The girl who swears no one has ever made love to her has a right to swear.

The two big advantages I had at birth were to have been born wise and to have been born in poverty.

The right hairstyle can make a plain woman beautiful and a beautiful woman unforgettable.

I was not interested in what I could bring to myself by being an actress, but in what I could bring out of myself.

You have to be born a sex symbol. You don’t become one. If you’re born with it, you’ll have it even when you’re 100 years old.

Style must be adapted to the woman and not vice versa. The same can be said of clothes.

The eyes of a woman who never cried can not be beautiful.

Physical exercise makes you more graceful. After some gymnasitics you walk as if the whole street is yours.

Children internalize their parents’ unhappiness. Fortunately, they absorb our contentment just as readily.

The deepest hunger of [a child’s] human heart is to be understood, for understanding implicitly affirms, validates, recognizes and appreciates the intrinsic worth of another.

I’m sometimes scared of everything that has happened to us. We didn’t think Desilu Productions would grow so big. We merely wanted to be together and have two children.

Children are our future we must take care of them with maximum effort.

The interesting thing with child actors is that kids are natural actors. They’re wonderful actors, and most kids are acting all the time. They’re imagining they’re out in the yard playing. They’re imagining that things happened, and they can get very vivid.

My stepdad provided me with an amazing childhood. I played outside like a normal kid, I rode my bike, I walked to school, but the happiest times were when I was acting.

Crimes against children are the most heinous crime. That, for me, would be a reason for capital punishment because children are innocent and need the guidance of an adult society.

I’ve never understood women who, because of their children, pose as victims and don’t allow themselves any other activities.