Quotes

[on Bitter Rice (1949)] It was very hard work. I got malaria doing it, and was running a fever during many of the scenes.

I don't go in for sports - tennis, swimming, or anything like that. My only hobbies are making pencil sketches and reading.

[when Earl Wilson asked, "What American stars do you like?"] Bette Davis and Richard Widmark. Widmark has sex appeal. Si, moltissimo. I would be disappointed if I learned he's not intelligent.

Good-looking men know it and become insufferable. There are more attractive women than handsome men. So the handsome men get spoiled.

[when Earl Wilson asked, "Do you like Clark Gable?"] No! Look at my husband and you have the answer. I only like ugly men. He is the least ugly man in my life.

[referring to her husband, Dino De Laurentiis, when Earl Wilson asked, "Do you know about Marilyn Monroe?"] ASK HIM! He always insists on going to her pictures and says "Wake me up when she comes on." I am a foolish woman and do it.