ANNA MAGNANI

Children are like puppies: you have to keep them near you, and look after them, if you want their affection.

It's so unfair that we should die, just because we are born.

Please don't retouch my wrinkles. It took me so long to earn them.

[To reporter who telephoned with news of her Oscar:] If you are joking me, I will get up immediately and kill you wherever you are.

Ah, the feeling you get holding a diamond in your hand! It seems to bore into your skin, to burn, to breathe. It's like holding a bit of the moon in your hand.

Great passions, my dear, don't exist: they're liars fantasies. What do exist are little loves that may last for a short or a longer while.

A divorcee is a women who got married so she didn't have to work, but now works so she doesn't have to get married.

Great passions, my dear, don't exist: they're liars fantasies. What do exist are little loves that may last for a short or a longer while.

Please don't retouch my wrinkles. It took me so long to earn them.

A divorcee is a women who got married so she didn't have to work, but now works so she doesn't have to get married.

Ah, the feeling you get holding a diamond in your hand! It seems to bore into your skin, to burn, to breathe. It's like holding a bit of the moon in your hand.

[To reporter who telephoned with news of her Oscar:] If you are joking me, I will get up immediately and kill you wherever you are.

Children are like puppies: you have to keep them near you, and look after them, if you want their affection.

It's so unfair that we should die, just because we are born.