“Good food is a celebration of life.”

I don’t like to run. I don’t like to jump up and down. Being a big girl and having a bosom, I injure myself! It upsets me, I have to hold my two things. I just can’t jog, there’s something in the way.

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.

Everything you live through helps to make you the person you are now.

I firmly believe we can make our own miracles if we believe strongly enough in ourselves and our mission on earth.

A dog is faithful, a woman never.

You really have to be satisfied with what you are and accept from life what it still very generously offers you – and notice it, and be glad for it.

You must all, somewhere deep in your hearts, believe that you have a special beauty that is like no other and that is so valuable that you must not abandon it. Indeed, you must learn to cherish it.

When you are a mother, you are never really alone in your thoughts. A mother always has to think twice, once for herself and once for her child.

I believe that rewards in life are deserved. Every reward is the fruit of discipline, of dedication and of sacrifices. And of stubbornness.

Mistakes are a part of the dues one pays for a full life.

Luck assists fortune, you need to catch the moment. Otherwise the opportunity fades.

I know how to say ‘no’ in twelve languages. That’s enough for a woman.

A woman’s dress should be like a barbed-wire fence: serving its purpose without obstructing the view.

And as I walk round the park I always think, ‘Maybe round the corner I am going to find something beautiful.’ I always think positively. It is very rare that you find me in a mood that is sad or melancholic.

I think the quality of sexiness comes from within. It is something that is in you or it isn’t and it really doesn’t have much to do with breasts or thighs or the pout of your lips.

I still don’t know what I want to do when I grow up.

what we women want today – and every day- is fundamental equal rights, not congratulations or celebrations.

This fight hasn’t yet been won. So save your celebrations and congratulations and support women on the frontlines of society worldwide.

If I celebrated every plaque I got I woulda been partyin all year.

Live your life not celebrating victories but overcoming defeats.

The whole aspect of cinema and film festivals should be a moment to come together and celebrate art and humanity. It would be a shame if there was such a divide.

Celebrate your strength. You’ve come so far in your practice and have survived 100% of your bad days⁠.

Enjoy every little struggle of life and celebrate the progress.

No one gets out of this world alive, so the time to live, learn, care, share, celebrate, and love is now.