[about her relationship with actor James Dean] He wanted me to love him unconditionally, but Jimmy was not able to love someone else in return . . . it was the troubled boy that wanted to be loved very badly. I loved Jimmy as I have loved no one else in my life, but I could not give him the enormous amount that he needed. Loving Jimmy was something that could empty a person.

[about Debbie Reynolds] I don`t know what I would have done without Debbie. Debbie was, is and always will be my very dearest and best friend - we are like sisters.

[about her first role as Mirella in Domani è troppo tardi (1950)] When the scenes begin, I change completely. I was not Anna. Like when you drink cold, cold water and feel it run like ice inside. I felt I was another girl, not me.