Carlo Goldoni

He who never leaves his country is full of prejudices.

He only half dies who leaves an image of himself in his sons.

The world is a beautiful book, but of little use to him who cannot read it.

'Emergencies' have always been the pretext on which the safeguards of individual liberty have been eroded.

I didn't want to be famous. I just wanted to earn enough money to have a nice life and enjoy acting.

If this TV success had come in my twenties and I'd become a heart-throb, I would have been very stupid. I would have got into a lot of situations that I really wished I hadn't.