I'm attached to my land in Pantelleria as if I'd inherited it. Acting is my job, Pantelleria is my home.

Acting is our job, not talking about it. In France, they know me like I belong to their family. I go somewhere and I feel like I'm sometimes the aunt, the grandmother, the mother, the sister. They all know me. But it's not supposed to be that way.

Political debate is of no interest to me. What I want are practical solutions.

Of course when I started, it's not because I was such a brilliant actress. I didn't know I was good. I thought I was really bad. I was very shy. I was 18 and dreaming of becoming an actress.

There are four stages in a marriage. First there's the affair, then the marriage, then children and finally the fourth stage, without which you cannot know a woman, the divorce.

Try as you will, you cannot annihilate that eternal relic of the human heart, love.

Marriage made more sense when it was indissoluble. It's the woman trying to cope with the strains of a one-parent family who will suffer most from the relaxation of the divorce laws.

The things I need from my husband and he needs from me are minimal - respect, support when needed, kindness, love.