Gina Lollobrigida Quotes

I was kind of raised with the suggestion that I had a duty to do; that life was real, life was earnest. And I hated that, actually. I needed to be liberated, to be told that I could live the life that I wanted to live; that I didn't need a job, or to be shouted at; that I could be myself; that I could be happy.

I believe in living life the way that you want to live it every day, and if you do that, you don't really need to have New Year's resolutions.

True luxury is being able to own your time - to be able to take a walk, sit on your porch, read the paper, not take the call, not be compelled by obligation.

Acting is just a part of my life, and I like to lead life on my terms.

If I want to stay at home watching movies, I do that. If I want to take my bike out and go on a one-month holiday, I do that. To do all these things, it's first of all important for me to realise that I need to live my life.

Focus on yourself -- do what you want, when you want, without having to consider anyone else's agenda.

No man is obliged to do as much as he can do. A man is to have part of his life to himself.

Today as always, men fall into two groups: slaves and free men. Whoever does not have two-thirds of his day for himself, is a slave, whatever he may be: a statesman, a businessman, an official, or a scholar.

I would rather work less and do the things that I really want to do.

I'm doing what I want to do.

I don't do anything I don't want to do. There are so many opportunities that come my way, but if there's something out there that I don't want to do, I truly don't do it, because I have to maximize my time. If there's truly an opportunity to be quiet and be by myself, I do it.

I am not in this world to live up to other people's expectations, nor do I feel that the world must live up to mine.

There is a great demand everywhere in the world for individual mobility. People like the fact they are not on somebody else's schedule. They can come and go as they please.

Work doesn't seem to interfere with my life. I have time for everything, even time to be alone.

I own my own time.

I love the freedom of having my own space and my own place and doing things on my terms, and not really having to think about anybody else's schedule.

I've always wanted to have the ability to do what I want to do. And there are so many things that I want to do because I love acting, I love directing, I love producing, I love being a mother, I love being a wife. If I had to choose one, just would put me in the crazy house.

I'm in a position that allows me to do what I want to do, and I do it.

We have built our State on the freedom of personal adventure.

I work as often as I want and yet I'm free as a bird.

Perfect freedom is reserved for the man who lives by his own work and in that work does what he wants to do.

I believe everybody got the right to live their own life the way they want to.

Life's a balancing act. You have multiple roles and goals, and you can do it all - just not all at once.

I'm part of a generation that's saying, 'I don't want to do just one thing, and I'm going to do things the way I want.'

One of the things I realized is that if you do not take control over your time and your life, other people will gobble it up. If you don't prioritize yourself, you constantly start falling lower and lower on your list, your kids fall lower and lower on your list.