“Getting ahead in a difficult profession requires avid faith in yourself. That is why some people with mediocre talent, but with great inner drive, go so much further than people with vastly superior talent.”

If you don’t have the roots somewhere, it’s very difficult for people to work with you. Because you are a different person from them. They don’t know you, really. They don’t know how you feel.

Be honest about what you can get. To make a sacrifice and to get what you want you need to be very certain. In other words: always think about your objective, have a clear goal and commit to it from the heart.

I have never judged myself by other people’s standards. I have always expected a great deal of myself, and if I fail, I fail myself.

Believe me, it is actions that count.

Sex is like washing your face – just something you do because you have to. Sex without love is absolutely ridiculous. Sex follows love, it never precedes it.

Without my mother’s ambition, her drive, I doubt that on my own I would have pushed myself out of Pozzuoli and into the frightening world that was faraway Rome.

Though poor and anxious to work, I refused to alter anything. They would take me as I looked or not at all. Eventually I profited by looking like myself and not like what was fashionable years ago with certain film technicians in Rome.

Where youthful beauty is unconscious, mature beauty is knowing and sophisticated.

My philosophy is that it’s better to explore life and make mistakes than to play it safe and not to explore at all.

When I’m walking along in the street, I always feel that around the corner, there is something wonderful waiting for me. That’s my attitude.

The mirror of your health is your skin. If you drink, it shows in your face; if you eat the wrong foods, you have pimples. If you take care of your food and you lead a healthy life, your skin will look wonderful.

I’d much rather eat pasta and drink wine than be a size 0.

Beauty is no handicap if you don’t think about it.

The most indespensible ingredient of all good home cooking: love for those you are cooking for.

Beauty is how you feel inside, and it reflects in your eyes. It is not something physical.

Jealousy is a miserable feeling. It means you aspire to something that you cannot have. Even in love, it is better to leave, better not to waste time.

Now, all the movies are for teenagers. It’s very difficult for an actress to find really deep, beautiful characters to play.

I don’t prefer to go out and chill. I hardly roam around. It might be difficult to believe, but I haven’t visited Akshardham temple or Qutub Minar.

Passion is the degree of difficulty we are willing to endure to accomplish the goal.

I wanted to make an album that melodically people can connect to; something that reflects our times and the kinds of difficulties we face.

All my prayers go out to Tyson Fury. I know it’s difficult to be in his situation.

I find it difficult to see the romance in digital.

Sometimes it’s more difficult to exist as a female lead, especially in action movies because all those men are around you. They take so much place.

You’ve got to trust people. And because I am a control freak, sometimes that’s difficult for me, because I want to micro-manage absolutely everything. I can’t hand over. But I’m trying to do that more.