[To reporter who telephoned with news of her Oscar:] If you are joking me, I will get up immediately and kill you wherever you are.

- Anna Magnani

A divorcee is a women who got married so she didn't have to work, but now works so she doesn't have to get married.

- Anna Magnani

It's so unfair that we should die, just because we are born.

- Anna Magnani

Please don't retouch my wrinkles. It took me so long to earn them.

- Anna Magnani

Ah, the feeling you get holding a diamond in your hand! It seems to bore into your skin, to burn, to breathe. It's like holding a bit of the moon in …

- Anna Magnani

Children are like puppies: you have to keep them near you, and look after them, if you want their affection.

- Anna Magnani

Great passions, my dear, don't exist: they're liars fantasies. What do exist are little loves that may last for a short or a longer while.

- Anna Magnani