Valeria Quotes

#1. You people keep spoiling my plans. First Wizard Suliman would not come near the Waste, so that I had to threaten Princess Valeria in order to make the King order him out here. Then, when he came, he grew trees.

Diana Wynne Jones

#2. Valeria," the mayor's wife asked. "Are you all right this morning? My husband has been asking about you."
"Yes, desire. Quite. Don't you look lovely today.

Marc Fitten

#3. Oren tells Marcus: You have a peaceful, noble heart. But as we discussed last night, some men deserve to die. Valeria knows that.

Scott Robert Scheller

#4. Are you free of each other, pretty Mrs. Valeria, by common consent of both parties?

Wilkie Collins

#5. In the kitchen Valeria was making breakfast, his aunt never made breakfast even though Carlo insisted for years that a hotel hoping to cater to French and Americans must offer breakfast. "It's a lazy man's meal.", she always said. "What laggard expects to eat before doing any work?

Jess Walter

#6. I harbored the secret hope, or rather, the secret certainty, that one day I would finally turn into myself; into the image of myself I'd been elaborating for years.

Valeria Luiselli

#7. But perhaps a person only has two real residences: the childhood home and the grave.

Valeria Luiselli

#8. Everything else seemed trivial; like talking about your favourite film while your airplane is falling out of the sky.

Valeria Kogan

#9. The person who walks too slowly could be plotting a crime or - even worse - might be a tourist.

Valeria Luiselli

#10. Perhaps it's right that words contain nothing, or almost nothing. That their content is, at the very least, variable.

Valeria Luiselli

#11. I've always thought that hell is the people you could one day become. The most frightening ones.

Valeria Luiselli

#12. That's the way literary recognition works, at least to a certain degree. It's all a matter of rumor, a rumor that multiplies like a virus until it becomes a collective affinity.

Valeria Luiselli

#13. The very idea of having children brings out this deep revulsion in me.

Valeria Lukyanova

#14. I love acting. I've been doing it since I was 16, and it's in my nature. It's the thing I do best. But as much as I love acting, I love cinema more. I always had a thing about creating images.

Valeria Golino

#15. My luck was without equal, my life was a poem, and I was certain that one day, someone was going to write the beautiful tale of my dental autobiography. End of story.

Valeria Luiselli

#16. As an actress you can participate, you can be a co-author, help the director. But I always wanted to be able to make the big decisions.

Valeria Golino

#17. When a person has lived alone for a long time, the only way to confirm that they still exist is to express activities and things in an easily shared syntax: this face, these bones that walk, this mouth, this hand that writes.

Valeria Luiselli

#18. Perhaps learning to speak is realizing, little by little, that we can say nothing about anything.

Valeria Luiselli

#19. I think that it helps that I have acted. That said, it doesn't mean you're going to be a good director.

Valeria Golino

#20. I know I need to generate a structure full of holes so that I can always find a place for myself on the page, inhabit it; I have to remember never to put in more than is necessary, never overlay, never furnish or adorn.

Valeria Luiselli

#21. What is important is to have values in life. What's important is how you are, not how you look.

Valeria Mazza

#22. It is more important to know how to mix and match the clothes than to spend money.

Valeria Mazza

#23. Dyeing my hair has become a kind of addiction. I can't see myself as anything other than blond. Once you go blond, you stay blond forever.

Valeria Mazza

#24. I came to Hollywood and I loved it. It was a great time, but in my head I was still elsewhere, in Europe. I believed in a certain cinema, which I still do believe in - a certain European cinema - and as a young woman being in America, I thought I was being taken away from that.

Valeria Golino

#25. There are only five top models in the world: Cindy Crawford, Naomi Campbell, Linda Evangelista, Christy Turlington and Claudia Schiffer.

Valeria Mazza

#26. Demented is the man who is always clenching his teeth on that solid, immutable block of stone that is the past.

Valeria Luiselli

#27. as soon as we become accustomed to the silent presence of a thing, it gets broken or disappears. My ties to the people around me were also marked by those two modes of impermanence: breaking up or disappearing.

Valeria Luiselli

#28. I can touch my toes, but I bend in a strange way. I'll never be in the Olympics.

Valeria Golino

#29. I worked with fantastic actors, fantastic directors. People I would never otherwise have met. Was I limited? Yes. Did I use it as I could have? No. But I was always ambivalent about Hollywood and what I wanted. And ambivalence in our business is no good for success.

Valeria Golino

#30. What I am really curious about is the visuals of cinema ... the form.

Valeria Golino

#31. I think I lost at least 40% of my fans when I became blond. They didn't recognize me anymore.

Valeria Mazza

#32. When I think of Italy now, I think of accessories, possessions, bad TV, fake boobs, BMWs.

Valeria Golino

#33. I'd never stop traveling, and I love bringing my family along with me. My children have points of reference everywhere, friends from Milan to Los Angeles. I think it's really fun for them.

Valeria Mazza

#34. The most important thing in this life, Master Oklahoma used to say at the end of each session, is to have a destiny.

Valeria Luiselli

#35. Real writers never show their teeth. Charlatans, in contrast, flash that sinister crescent when they smile. Check it out. Find photos of all the writers you respect, and you'll see that their teeth remain a permanently occult mystery.

Valeria Luiselli

#36. In the small glass box the auctioneer held high lay waiting for me the sacred teeth of none other than Marilyn Monroe.

Valeria Luiselli

#37. 'Miele' is a code name for a girl who has a double life.

Valeria Golino

#38. There's no big splashy renaissance in Italian films. We have good young actors and directors. What we lack are screenwriters. It's hard to write about Italy.

Valeria Golino

#39. Life simply blew through her.

Valeria Kogan

#40. I've learned so many things from directors in my acting career. There are even some things I've learned that I didn't want to do. There are those directors who've really made me shine and others who've made me opaque.

Valeria Golino

#41. In some countries, women aren't allowed to wear a swimsuit.

Valeria Mazza

#42. Remember how many beautiful women there were in the 1950s and 1960s, without any surgery? And now, thanks to degeneration, we have this.

Valeria Lukyanova

#43. My communication with aliens is not verbal - we speak the language of light.

Valeria Lukyanova

#44. There's nothing so ill advised as attributing a metonymic value to inanimate objects.

Valeria Luiselli

#45. I'm even flattered! It's what success is like. I'm happy I seem unreal to them, it means I'm doing a good job,

Valeria Lukyanova