"The comparison with Naomi Campbell makes me happy because she is beautiful, but I think that this element has not influenced my success, because before coming to Italy I traveled all over the world making a career as a model. Once I arrived here I was already known and I didn't need anything else except my competence and determination."

"Fashion means so many things to me. Nowadays it has become a very important thing in people's lives. With it each of us can express our own lifestyle and personality."

"Sicily is a land that I adore, every time I have found wonderful and welcoming people. It is a land that has kept its culture and its sun intact, so as an African I find myself totally in this immense heat."

"Showing public opinion that in retirement, one must give meaning to one's life by creating a new social identity."

"In retirement, social life takes on its full meaning because one must rebuild a role in this new stage of life where social codes are no longer the same."

"Retirement is a step towards building a new role, a new social identity, and feeling useful in society"

"Retirement is an upward path that leads to new heights"

"It's not that I wouldn't have wanted to play young leading ladies! It's simply that I've never been offered roles. I've been playing old women since I was young"

"I have a knack for old women! When I was young, when I went out into town in my heels, in trousers, some people would say: 'No! We don't understand. It's not possible, you're changing"

"In the family, we laughed, we argued, and I acted"

"When I saw the play, I said to myself, 'That's what I want to do.' It was love at first sight"