Models From Italy

"Acting remains my only great aspiration, and I invest all my energies in this. But, yes: there is a plan B. I'm in the fifth year of scientific high school and, after graduating, I'll enroll in criminology. I will study it mostly out of passion, because the subject fascinates me a lot. At worst, this will be my plan B."

"In the family you have decidedly clear ideas. Please tell me you have a loser brother who, like all ordinary mortals, is working hard to make it. No, no loser brother: it's just me and Ludovica. By the way, we started together: she was 11, I was 7. It's one of those coincidences that is hard to explain: she was part of a theater company and I enrolled in their drama school. In short, we studied in different classes and, over time, what seemed to be a fun pastime became a passion for both of us. Luckily we have very different approaches and styles. For example, we happened to prepare for the same casting and the same scene was represented in a completely different way by me and by her. Probably the fact that Ludovica is much more expansive, while I have a shy and introverted character, also has an influence."

"When I was seven I enrolled in a theater course without knowing that it would be my greatest passion. It started as a game but, in eighth grade, I realized that I wanted to get serious and study in Rome: from there I never stopped working, so much so that I moved here because going back and forth to Sora was getting complicated."

"I'm very self-critical: when I see a scene I always notice what I don't like and what I would have done differently, and that's why I try to listen to the opinions of those around me, completely trusting the directors."

"There is a difference, however: on social networks you are yourself, while in the cinema it is not me who acts, but the character I play. When I act, shyness disappears because I let the person I give my face speak to."

"There are still many places around the globe I would like to explore, and I'm going to trust my modeling career to take me to at least some of them."

"Acting is a very powerful tool that allows me to communicate with people. Very often, I can express myself more in acting than in everyday life. I would like to be able to tell a character with a strong story behind them. I want to be able to give a message of strength, of positivity, of courage. It would be interesting to be able to give a voice to a person who lives in dark moments but manages to draw a chance for change. Also, it would be very interesting to be able to experience a girl who is far from who I am in reality and who allows me to be able to talk about sensitive topics such as bullying."

"I was born in the summer and it is the season that I love the most and that represents me. The best memory is that of my past birthdays. I have wonderful memories related to my holidays. In general, even now I love to celebrate the day I was born, I always have this beautiful image in which I celebrate life that makes me feel happy."

"How was supporting Roby Facchinetti? I discovered that besides being the myth of music we all know, he is a wonderful person. He has eyes that express all of his big heart and legendary talent. For me it is a real honor to be next to him, he has a lot to teach on both an artistic and a human level. I can't wait for the filming of our docufilm to begin, I already know that it will be a great emotion to be able to experience a wonderful story of which Roby was a great protagonist up close."

"I feel lucky because I didn't start from social media and then start studying acting. I come from a school background, I started studying theater and cinema as a child, working on the scenes and on memory until death. The web has always been my means of sharing with the public, I used social media to bring my work there too. I don't feel the pressure of a conflict with the work of an actress, even if occasionally someone confuses things. I think everyone can do everything but you have to study. I'm for the meritocracy, I don't like those who reach the top because they already have a million followers."

"A book at 17. You had the courage to expose yourself a lot. When they proposed it to me I was skeptical, I thought I was too young to have anything to tell. We didn't have a story and it couldn't be a biography: at less than 18, what biography do you want to do? But after the first meetings with the ghost writer, many arguments came up talking. I try to explain the feeling: there were strong things inside me, I felt I was a young girl who talked about her to her generation, but who also lives an unusual life compared to other teenagers."

"Where would you like to go? In America, although there are many Italian directors with whom I would love to work, from Muccino to Sorrentino. Then I am fascinated by the world of conduction: if I had to think big I would aim for Sanremo, which is an institution for our country. I like the recited monologues, the staircase, those wonderful dresses."

"What memory do you have of the first day on set? I was very excited, and I was lucky enough to share the experience with wonderful people who have always reassured me when I had uncertainties or doubts. Some time later, they told me that at the beginning it is as if I had jumped without a parachute and I think they are right: with a little ingenuity and the desire to give my best, I was able to enjoy the trip in the round, without limits."

"Are you able to reconcile studying with your commitments? If you want, you can do both: study and dreams. I attend a private school and, traveling a lot, I have often studied the handouts online: this is why I was happy that others could also deal with a study method that I already knew and that has always served me so much. I would like to continue with the University even if I don't know which address yet. For sure I will continue to focus on acting and conducting: with a little sacrifice, I think it is possible to carry on both things in parallel."

"I discovered that I have a great passion for radio and this is teaching me: I am acquiring great confidence and dialectical skills. I love how the radio enhances the expression of a content and not the appearance of the person who utters it. Having said that, however, I don't want to be hypocritical: if they offered me to run a good TV program, I'd take it."

"Known of the respectability on the part of everyone. I've always been called the villain of reality because unfortunately I'm one of the few real ones. When I think of something, I expose it, regardless of whether it may later please the public."

"After a sentimental burn I had decided to participate but without wanting to tie myself to anyone. As then happened to me with Jeremias, you never know what awaits us."

"My dream is to lead. I speak fluent Italian, English and Spanish and I am studying Russian. From the point of view of the feelings and the path, I was burned because I went out there with a person who was not interested in me. I would be afraid of relapsing again. I don't know if I would be able to trust another person again but above all I would no longer want to have a television relationship."

"Today, the image always comes first, and it is enough to look at the women on our television to realize it. I don't want to make a bundle of all the grass, but having a nice and seductive image is necessary. I don't even know if it is wrong: a beautiful woman is right to be appreciated also for her own aesthetics. The problem occurs when, at an audition and with the same talent, the girl with the dress is taken instead of the girl in the suit. I realized I had a weapon available, my body, and I decided to use it. It is wrong, however, that talent alone is not enough."

"The social world has become more raw than it was a few years ago and, I believe, the credit goes to the new generations. They don't want to see perfection, they hate the stereotype of the all-beautiful always. If my mother or grandmother had seen an advertisement for a cream sponsored by a model with perfect skin, they would certainly have thought they could buy it. Now, thanks to social media, in advertisements and in photos and Stories we can talk about acne problems, about skins that are anything but perfect."

"I had trouble accepting my being a woman, my changing body. I've always hid under loose clothing, and I still do some of it. From the outside, it is not perceived, the television returns something else and I avoid putting the oversized sweatshirt in public. However, I have always had a tendency to want to hide rather than show."

"Ageing brings a lot of happiness. You get fatter and more wrinkles, and that’s not so good, but there is a freedom that comes with it. The freedom is: I better do what I want to do now, because I’ll be dead soon. So this is my last chance. Also, there’s a serenity that comes – I had the career I had, good or bad, I did the best I could, and now I continue pursuing what is interesting to me."

"I’m not there now to represent beauty; I’m there to represent a different dream. It may be defined as joyfulness; life goes on and there are many chapters. I think that’s why they keep me."

"Women executives have a different sensitivity. Male executives only understood makeup or fashion as an instrument of seduction, because that was addressed to them. They didn’t understand that we like to put on makeup or dress up just because it’s a game; it’s pleasurable."

"…I have not even been nominated for one. But it doesn’t affect me any more. This is the great thing about getting old: things that preoccupied you when you were young cease to preoccupy you. I would have loved to have had one Oscar. Well, too bad. I have six sheep, two dogs, two children."

"Because my mother was Ingrid Bergman and my father was Roberto Rossellini, I was intimidated about becoming an actress and a director…Both [in terms of her parents’ reputations upon entering the acting world]…It opened doors, but the judgment was much more severe…In the press, they said: ‘She looks like her mother, but she certainly hasn’t inherited her talent.’ It crushes you. If they say it today, you just say: well, maybe that’s true. It doesn’t hurt you so much."

"La prima volta che vado a letto con un uomo succede quasi sempre che non si fa niente. Si preoccupano, si agitano, credono di dover fare i fenomeni. Pensano "Oddio, lo sto facendo con l'Arcuri", e non si conclude. Ormai lo so, sono rassegnata. Per questo concedo sempre una seconda chance."

"I got to know Asia Argento ten months ago. Our commonality is the shared pain of being assaulted by Harvey Weinstein."

"@JimmyBennett love you for life my Jimmy. You know I've been testing 9 years old lately but unfortunately ain't nobody like you sonny."

"Each fur jacket and piece of fur trim is taken from a terrified living being who was trapped in the wild … or who had a miserable life locked inside a barren wire cage before being drowned, electrocuted, poisoned, or skinned alive. … I, along with many … would love to see … take a step into the compassionate future of fashion by pledging not to feature fur."

"I decided to go nude because I think that nudity always creates a big reaction. That is what is required to keep people’s attention on such a brutal practice …. These poor animals are electrocuted, skinned alive, drowned, and bludgeoned just for the sake of fashion. … Don’t buy fur. Even a little trim—your gloves or your bag or your jackets …. You must remember that animals don’t have a voice. You must be their voice. Never be afraid to speak up."

"Mick seemed to delight in Anita's sharp mind, her vicious streak that made her somehow very different from Marianne. For a while she seemed to dominate him with the same, almost supernatural hold she had over Brain & Keith. Once I heard Anita listen to a tape of 'Stray Cat Blues' as Jagger proudly waited her tell him (as all the other lackeys had done) how brilliant it was. "Crap," she said when it had finished. "The vocals are mixed up too high, and the bass isn't loud enough." Mick, with the basic insecurity of every creative artist, was so unused to hearing someone dare criticize his work that he at once went back to the studio and had the number remixed."

"They fought about everything - cars, prices, restaurant menus. Brian could never win an argument with Anita although he always made the mistake of trying. There would be terrible scenes with both of them screaming at each other. The difference was that Brian didn't know what he was doing. Anita did know what she was doing. I think in a more gracious age, Anita would have been called a witch."

"That song is about a few other things as well. And Anita is one of them. I was breaking up with her around that time. I'd said, "Look, if we clean up together, we'll stay together". Well, I cleaned myself up. But she didn't. And I realized that I couldn't sleep with someone who had a needle beside the bed. I was too fragile at that point. I loved her, but I had to leave."

"At first I'm sure Anita wanted to protect Brian from what she thought was our cruelty and callousness. Coming in like that she couldn't realize how the scene developed. Or how impossible it was to deal with a dead weight like Brian. They had incredible fights. And she used to beat the shit out of him every time. He would start a fight. Obviously she was tougher than him. He always was walking around with his ribs bandaged or his eyed blackened. Anita felt Brian was somebody who could be sensitive and obviously she felt he needed support. When he started paying her back by trying to beat her up, she began to realize."

"That boy of 17 who shot himself in my house really ended it for us. And although we occasionally saw each other for the sake of the children, it was the end of our personal relationship."

"I was too independent for Mick. I wasn't proper enough for him. He's a chauvinist. I wouldn't put up with that. Keith, surprisingly, is not. Though I feel sorry for Patti [Hansen]. I love her and think she is a marvellous woman, but I would not want to be in her shoes now. It's such a lonely existence, living with a rock 'n' roller. No matter how much he loves you, he will always love his music more. I know when Keith is working on his music nothing else matters to him. He can be in a room with fifty people and he won't nothing anything but his guitar. A woman, to live with a rock star, must find her ways of independence."

"They looked at me like I was some kind of threat. [Mick] Jagger really tried to put me down, but there was no way some crude, lippy guy was going to do a number on me. I was always able to squelch him. I found out that, if you stand up to Mick, he crumbles."

"I believe that Anita is, for want of a better word, a witch...The occult unit within the Stones was Keith and Anita...and Brian. You see, Brian was a witch too."

"Fate, I respect a lot. I never regret anything."

"I felt from Anita an unmistakable electrical charge. She was so clever, so European, so built...She exuded a stylish and playful decadence that was at once intellectual, sultry, and mischievous. She was so perfectly Continental. She made quite a lasting impression on me that night."

"I knew her since we were first hanging out in London with The Rolling Stones. She was a real nasty person. She would do anything to upset her girlfriends. I don't know her anymore."

"I decided to kidnap Brian. It sounds ridiculous but they even made a film about it, about kidnapping a pop star ['Privilege'] starring Paul Jones. This was the original story, Brian seemed to be the most sexually flexible. I knew I could talk to him. As a matter of fact when I met him I was his groupie really. I got backstage with a photographer, I told him I just wanted to meet him. I had some Amyl Nitrate and a piece of hash. I asked Brian if he wanted a joint and he said yes, so he asked me back to his hotel and he cried all night. He was so upset about Mick and Keith still, saying they had teamed up on him. I felt so sorry for him. Brian was fantastic, he had everything going for him, but he was just too complicated."

"I'm careful about what I eat when I have work assignments, but I don't get carried away by diets. I've always been a curvy woman, never truly thin: it's my nature, and I want to age gracefully."

"If it weren't for Sicily, cinema wouldn't exist. All the great stories were born here."

"It's important for me to find different things and prove I can do them. … Someone told me that inside all actors are many sleeping princesses, and each time we do a role, one of those princesses wakes up. Inside us there is everything. We just have to look for it."