Any woman who marries an Italian must accept the undeniable fact that she has also married his mother.
My father said, If you want to do acting, you have to be successful, which is a silly thing to say.
You never came home for lunch: you just stayed doing, playing, having fun, surfing, running round.
I was often very, incredibly naughty, and if I didn’t come home at tea time I used to be sent to bed without any dinner. But people used to bring me things: I was better fed in bed.
I sort of was good at writing essays. I was never very good at mathematics, and I was never very good at algebra. I loved science, but I wasn’t sure of it.
My mother felt it was time that I had some parental control, so I went off to America and went to New York.
When I did Taming of the Shrew, I was very tired, and I decided to have a holiday and make a documentary.
Suddenly I had a contract and I was earning lots of money.