Simone Signoret

He bore no grudge against those he had wronged.

I got old the way that women who aren't actresses grow old.

Chains do not hold a marriage together. It is threads, hundreds of tiny threads, which sew people together through the years.

Wherever I went, crowds appeared again, and I started making solo albums for the first time in my career.

Recently, I was in Bernalda, my dad's ancestral home town in Italy. He has just refurbished a palazzo and turned it into a hotel, so we had my sister's wedding there. It was beautiful.

I generally don't follow domestic news that much aside from how it relates to the stories I'm covering abroad, like what Americans think of the War in Afghanistan.