Quotes

I do have ambition--I can dress up for a premiere, get in a limousine--but it's not my life. My life is wearing jeans and tennis shoes and traveling on the metro. I have to do that because otherwise my acting is going to be false.

I have a dream of re-creating the fantastic family I grew up in with my brother and my parents. I am lucky that I have such a good image of family life - my father and mother are still in love, still happy.

Modelling was not very satisfying for me. I came to London to model, and I fell in love with the theatre. I was eating yogurt every day so that I had the money to go to the theatre. I saw everything. It's still my dream to be on stage in London.

My favorite animal is the koala, but his life would be boring. I would rather be a giraffe so that I could contemplate the beauty of Africa.

Back in Rome I did some acting lessons and I realized I loved it more than anything else I had ever done before.

I never download anything; it's crazy! We must keep buying albums and DVDs.

I love all the shoe shops in Covent Garden. Laura Lee Jewelry on Monmouth Street for delicate gold jewelry. Every time I get a part in an English movie, I buy myself a piece of jewelry from there.

I don't go back home to Sardinia as much as I would like, just for Christmas and family events.

My parents wanted me to be a doctor, and they weren't very happy at the idea of me choosing acting as a career. Everyone in my family went to university--my older brother is a lawyer--but when they saw me for the first time at the theatre, they thought, "OK". They like it very much now.