“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.”

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.

Hate is unfulfilled love.

I’m very susceptible to sex appeal.

Sometimes when you involve yourself in so many things, you can’t do any of them well – and I like to do everything perfectly.

Isn’t it wonderful to be alive? You know, you can forget all about it. Then suddenly you remember, and think of all the things you can do. Here I am. I can walk around. I can talk. I can see things and remember things. I am alive. How wonderful!

Expect great things, and great things will come.

Have great hopes and dare to go all out for them. Have great dreams and dare to live them. Have tremendous expectations and believe in them.

To be rich is to give a smile with no expectation of return.

Expect me to give my all. Thats what I do every time I have a show. Give my all.

I just think the American people had expected that the president of the United States would be able to describe what he’s going to do in the next four years. But he can’t. He can’t even explain what he’s done in the last four years.

We’ve been expected to be perfect but we aren’t. We’re still human.

We have to support our own films. If we don’t, how can we expect others to support them?

I don’t think people expect Bruce Springsteen to come out in a pink satin jacket, but Rod Stewart, they do. And I like doing it; I don’t wear it just because I think I have to. I’m a very flamboyant person.