Top 40 Giovanna Quotes
#1. When Angelina was returned, she was embarrassed to confess and admit that she hadn't trusted her. "Why don't you go see her, Giovanna?" suggested Teresa softly. "I want to go for a walk. Can you finish
Laurie Fabiano
#2. We [ with Italo Calvino] had a great relationship. I don't think it's a coincidence that his only daughter's name is Giovanna. I loved his book dedications to me: "To Giovanna Cau, another book that won't be turned into a movie."
Giovanna Cau
#3. I've never been in love with Marcello [Mastroianni]. I wasn't even attracted to him physically. I admired him. I followed him and supported him, but nothing ever clicked.
Giovanna Cau
#5. I never uttered a word about things, but with my age now, I've completely lost all reservations. In more ways than one. I was never in front of the camera, for example, but now I've been in films and documentaries.
Giovanna Cau
#7. There were a lot of contradictions between Marcello's[ Mastroianni] public persona and who he was in private.
The fact that Italy chose to incarnate him as a model of beauty stupefied him.
Giovanna Cau
#8. Work is a great thing. This is something my father taught me. He didn't want me to grow up to be somebody's wife.
Giovanna Cau
#9. There is no happiness like that of being loved by your fellow creatures, and feeling that your presence is an addition to their comfort.
Giovanna Fletcher
#10. There's only so long you can live in a fantasy world before the reality comes along to sharply put you back in your place.
Giovanna Fletcher
#11. I had a very full life, with pains and losses, of course. I lost all the people I was closest to: my partner, my father, and my best friends, but I can't complain. I am 91 years old and I am still here at my desk.
Giovanna Cau
#12. It's funny to think that Christmas - a time known for its joyful togetherness - can be the loneliest time of the year for some.
Giovanna Fletcher
#13. I hated being photographed and never wanted to go on red carpets, even though they always asked me to. My place was behind the scenes. I wasn't a diva. I preferred to look at life from the outside.
Giovanna Cau
#14. I think it's funny how life can lead you down certain paths which you wouldn't have taken otherwise.
Giovanna Fletcher
#15. Today's consumerism has changed things. I think children are much less creative now.
Giovanna Cau
#16. Loving someone is something you can do from afar, admiring someone and appreciationg their existence in your life - but in love's different. It's all-cosnuming to the point where being away from taht person seems unbearable. There's no stopping that feeling... ~ Ben
Giovanna Fletcher
#17. I had become awkward and tried my best to avoid everyone. I hated attention, people asking me questions or putting me in the spotlight; I preferred to blend into the background unnoticed. I felt safer that way
Giovanna Fletcher
#18. I'd never seen Marcello [Mastroianni] truly in love with a woman. I called him "the man who couldn't love." He was capable of enormous amounts of affection. He respected the women who were close to him, but never once fell in love.
Giovanna Cau
#19. I hope you're enjoying it, though, duck, and not wasting all your time and energy in a thankless job. You've got to make the most of life and not let these little opportunities pass you by. Before you know it you'll be old and wrinkly like me and wishing you'd done more. Just make sure you're happy.
Giovanna Fletcher
#20. There's no point worrying until we know what we're worrying about.
Giovanna Fletcher
#21. Honestly, you would have thought she'd be happy to have me, her premenstrual-screaming-raging-teenage-daughter-who-is-lovely-to-everyone-else-but-the-actual-devil-at-home, out of the house for a little bit. But it appeared not having me at home caused her just as much stress as having me there did.
Giovanna Fletcher
#22. Everything has changed now. The world has changed. It surprises me to be on the forefront. I've lost all dignity! I give interviews! I make movies! I'm amazed at myself.
Giovanna Cau
#24. Always care for the writing part first. Every good film project starts with good writing. If you have a good script, everything else follows. Writing is crucial.
Giovanna Cau
#25. Nothing does have a sound. A very loud one that is unnervingly full of suspense for something to come along and fill it.
Giovanna Fletcher
#26. I surely haven't only dealt with film people. As a lawyer, I also fought against evictions, or worked on leases - the unglamorous side of the business.
Giovanna Cau
#27. It's one of the most beautiful memories of my life. Not everyone has a chance to meet Greta Garbo! I was so in awe of her that I recently had my assistant search online for her film Queen Christina [1933]. I cherish that rare DVD like a precious keepsake now.
Giovanna Cau
#28. She [Monica Vitti] was a great actress, but a very difficult person. I am not in contact with her at the moment because she is very sick. Not a generous woman, I have to say. I don't see her much.
Giovanna Cau
#29. I had fewer female clients. I don't know why. It was always the men who chose me. And the ones whose secrets I had to hold. I represented Sophia Loren. She was jailed in Caserta for 17 days.
Giovanna Cau
#30. Forever only lasts for as long as it's allowed to, until something else steps in and stops it from existing. Although
Giovanna Fletcher
#31. Outside the streets are buzzing with excitement and i'm not a part of it
Giovanna Fletcher
#33. He[ Italo Calvino] always said it would be impossible to try to make films out of his books, though he hoped it would happen because that's where the money was.
Giovanna Cau
#34. I didn't take care of the kids. I took care of the interior decoration of the house. I wanted to be an architect, so I curated that aspect of things. In the middle of the chaos, I moved things around and rearranged everything to find my order.
Giovanna Cau
#35. Well, there's nothing like trying to fool yourself into believing something that's a blatant lie.
Giovanna Fletcher
#36. My father was everything to me. Unlike my mother - I didn't have a special affinity with her.
Giovanna Cau
#37. I am a big fan of[Barak] Obama.I'd like to lie on the ground and have him walk over me.
Giovanna Cau
#38. Back at home I spent so much time on my own, but never once felt lonely. Here, even though I see hundreds more people each day, I've never felt lonelier.
Giovanna Fletcher
#40. I was born in Rome on March 11, 1923. Because of my age, I've become a piece of this country's history, but it's also true that a certain strand of Italy's film history has passed though me.
Giovanna Cau
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