Mastroianni Quotes

#1. They come for you in the morning in a limousine; they take you to the studio; they stick a pretty girl in your arms ... They call that a profession? Come on!

Marcello Mastroianni

#2. Once they call you a Latin Lover, you're in real trouble. Women expect an Oscar performance in bed.

Marcello Mastroianni

#3. I made theater very important in the beginning of my career.

Marcello Mastroianni

#4. I loved Chiara Mastroianni voice, her talent, her generosity. We rehearsed for two months ... She's a workaholic and perfectionist, like Vincent [ Paronnaud] and myself.

Marjane Satrapi

#5. Woman is the sun, an extraordinary creature, one that makes the imagination gallop.

Marcello Mastroianni

#6. For why are we here if not to try to fathom one another? Not through facts alone, but with the full extent of our imaginations. And what are stories if not tools for imagining?

Leah Hager Cohen

#7. Listen much, keep silent when in doubt, and always take heed of the tongue; thou wilt make few mistakes. See much, beware of pitfalls, and always give heed to thy walk; thou wilt have little to rue. If thy words are seldom wrong, thy deeds leave little to rue, pay will follow.

Confucius

#8. With whom do you argue? With a woman, of course. Not with a friend, because he accepted all your defects the moment he found you. Besides, woman is mother-have we forgotten?

Marcello Mastroianni

#9. That is what's meant by being afraid of the future, by showing how brilliant you come out of it.

Bisco Hatori

#10. You can't host an Italian film festival without Marcello Mastroianni. It just doesn't feel right.

Gia Coppola

#11. Each year we look for a big name that is attractive to the public and pleasant for the girls.

Marcello Mastroianni

#12. Like journalists. The police have an extremely sick sense of humor, very guarded, very private, very male, which they need to survive on an everyday level. I don't think anyone has ever managed to tap that on the screen - it would actually be too shocking.

Helen Mirren

#13. 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

#14. Woman is also the element of conflict.

Marcello Mastroianni

#15. Happiness consists of being able to tell the truth without hurting anyone.

Marcello Mastroianni

#16. 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

#17. When I was young, life seemed long and endless to me.

Marcello Mastroianni

#18. What's gotten in the way of education in the United States is a theory of social engineering that says there is ONE RIGHT WAY to proceed with growing up.

John Taylor Gatto

#19. Theater actors like to change character roles. They don't like to always do the same thing.

Marcello Mastroianni

#20. Are you there? If your mind is not there, you are not there! You are wherever your mind is wandering!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#21. Every woman knows the art of saying no with the lips and yes with the rest

Marcello Mastroianni

#22. I barely knew her at all. She was on hold, someone I'd be friends with when she got her shit together. And then she died.

Michelle Tea

#23. 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