Quotes

"I honestly don't understand the big fuss made over nudity and sex in films. It's silly. On TV, the children can watch people murdering each other, which is a very unnatural thing, but they can't watch two people in the very natural process of making love. Now, really, that doesn't make any sense, does it?"

"I'd like to be a fairy princess — a little golden doll with gossamer wings, in a voile dress, adorned with bright, shiny things. I see that as something totally pure and beautiful. Everything that's realistic has some sort of ugliness in it. Even a flower is ugly when it wilts, a bird when it seeks its prey, the ocean when it becomes violent. I'm very sensitive to ugly situations. I'm quick to read people, and I pick up if someone's reacting to me as just a sexy blonde. At times like that, I freeze. I can be very alone at a party, on the set, or in general, if I'm not in harmony with things around me."

"I guess I kind of lived in a fairytale world... looking at everything through rose-colored glasses. I probably always will, to a certain extent."

"Life. People. Before, I used to take everything at face value. Because, when I say something, I mean it... so I used to feel that everybody else meant what they said. But of course that wasn't true. And life isn't that sweet and simple."

"Sexiness is all in the eye of the beholder. I think it should be. Absolutely. My sex appeal, whatever it might be, isn't obvious...at least to me."

"I don't fool myself. I can't see myself doing Shakespeare."

"I don't see any difference between being stark naked or fully dressed - if it's part of the job and it's done with meaning and intention."

"I'd like to be an American Catherine Deneuve. She plays beautiful, sensitive, deep parts with a little bit of intelligence behind them."

"My whole life has been decided by fate. I think something more powerful than we are decides our fates for us. I know one thing - I've never planned anything that ever happened to me."

"We have a good arrangement. Roman lies to me and I pretend to believe him."

"If you just take it down to bare facts, the reason for living is the reason you make it. I mean the brain was made to create."

"I'm one of those mad, irrational characters who simply loves men. I love them because they''re men. Women...I don't like to compete against them or play games. It's a waste of time."

"Living with the Italians made me realize how much appreciation they have for beauty in the arts, environment and in personal expression. With this attitude I discovered a new kind of femininity."

"At school I was a lone wolf, and I feel I enlarged my horizons by not being preoccupied with being part of the pack. I have always tried not to be a rubber stamp of my environment."

"I've made movies and appeared on TV, but I have never appeared on the stage, and I don't know that I ever will. Live audiences frighten me to death. I am afraid of the Broadway stage."

"I really think that if you live for today, tomorrow takes care of itself."

"Beauty is only a look. It has nothing to do with what I''m like inside."

"I’ve learned a lot about me from being with Roman. My definition of love is being full. Complete. It makes everything lighter. Beauty is something you see. Love is something you feel."

"I'm so afraid of hurting other people's feelings I don't speak out when I should. I get into big messes that way."