“Beauty becomes alive and interesting when it’s habited.”

I’m a lucky person because I’ve been loved a lot. I have a great family.

People are very passionate in Italy. If you like something, you like something. If you hate something, you hate something. When you hate something, you are screaming.

When a relationship doesn’t work anymore, it’s terrible to stay with someone that you don’t love.

It’s not the Jews that killed Christ. It was a political situation, and it was the Romans who killed Jesus. They put Jesus on the cross, not the Jews

I have no idea how I’m perceived in America because I don’t live the reality of America

Love does not go away, it changes.

I live in Paris but I feel I am a daughter of Europe.

I believe that time destroys everything. You can take one beautiful apple, red. After a while, it becomes shrivelled and full of worms, just like what happens to us

Instead of going to the gym, I dress in black – a lot more practical and much more fun.

I come from a Catholic religion, but I’m not Catholic.

I like comedies, I like thrillers, I like love stories. Everything is beautiful; it depends if the film is good, who cares? Everything is interesting.

I didn’t have familiarity with children. I’m learning day after day, with her [daughter]. And what impresses me the most is that she, Deva, is an individual person. But in miniature, she seems to be a special effect.

If you have a script that’s not great, if you have a great director, you can make a great movie, but if you have a great script with a director who’s not good, never are you going to have a good movie.

I think the lawyers are such incredible actors. Can you imagine the performance they have to do every day?

I have always loved lipstick. For women, that love comes from our mother and grandmothers. It’s so natural for a woman to open up her mirror and apply lipstick.

We all need illusions. That’s why we love movies.

The real question is not whether life exists after death. The real question is whether you are alive before death.

The days of life pass away like clouds, so do good while you are alive.

I am not sick. I am broken. But I am happy to be alive as long as I can paint.

You don’t have to have a reason to feel good, you’re alive; you can feel good for no reason at all!

The meaning of life is just to be alive. It is so plain and so obvious and so simple. And yet, everybody rushes around in a great panic as if it were necessary to achieve something beyond themselves.

I had reasoned this out in my mind; there was on of two things I had a right to, liberty or death; if I could not have one, I would have the other; for no man should take me alive.

I am happy to be alive, as long as I can paint.

I often think that the night is more alive and more richly colored than the day.