Carlo Goldoni

He only half dies who leaves an image of himself in his sons.

He who never leaves his country is full of prejudices.

The world is a beautiful book, but of little use to him who cannot read it.

'Emergencies' have always been the pretext on which the safeguards of individual liberty have been eroded.

If this TV success had come in my twenties and I'd become a heart-throb, I would have been very stupid. I would have got into a lot of situations that I really wished I hadn't.

I didn't want to be famous. I just wanted to earn enough money to have a nice life and enjoy acting.