“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.”

I want to leave a souvenir of my life.

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

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

I have experience seducing nephews.

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.

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

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

My cinema – the ’50s, ’60s – is different from the cinema today so I thought that it would not be bad to show that kind of cinema where we could dream.

I admire the inner peace I found.

The best companion and helper is admirable morals.

When a man says to me, ‘Let us work together in the great cause you have undertaken, and let me be your companion and aid, for I admire you more than I have ever admired any other woman,’ then I shall say, ‘I am yours truly’; but he must ask me to be his equal, not his slave.

Admire as much as you can. Most people do not admire enough.

Envy someone an’ it pulls you down. Admire them and it builds you up. Which makes more sense?

By far the greatest and most admirable form of wisdom is that needed to plan and beautify cities and human communities.

That sculpture is more admirable than painting for the reason that it contains relief and painting does not is completely false.

A fool always finds a greater fool to admire him.