Gina Lollobrigida
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Luigia "Gina" Lollobrigida OMRI (4 July 1927 – 16 January 2023) was an Italian actress, model, photojournalist, and sculptor. She was one of the highest-profile European actresses of the 1950s and 1960s, a period in which she was an international sex symbol.
Quotes
[edit]- Sequels are always made for purely commercial reasons, i.e. to allow producers to make more money. However, they are extremely damaging to an artist's career.
- Quoted in Gina Lollobrigida indignata per le voci diffuse sul suo conto, Stampa Sera, 7 March 1955, p. 3.
- Gossip only lasts a few days, it dies down very quickly and the truth prevails once again.
- "I miei film non sono immorali", Stampa Sera, 8 April 1965, p. 5.
- (About the reasons for her marriage to Milko Skofic) Well, there was a reason... I had a misadventure, like many women. There was a wretch who took advantage of me, a footballer from Lazio. He drugged me, I was a virgin... What was I going to report him for? In those days... Now he's dead. I tried to convince myself that nothing had happened, but you don't forget something like that. Afterwards, I got together with Milko. It wasn't that he wanted to marry me, I wanted to, to have a normal life, I felt ruined... It was certainly a marriage of convenience on his part. He played tennis and counted money, that's all he did. When it became legal to do so, I divorced him.
- From an interview by Elvira Serra, Gina Lollobrigida: «Mi sposai per dimenticare uno stupro. Mio figlio? Un debole che non ragiona», corriere.it, 15 September 2018.
- [Which recognition do you value most?] The four stamps that San Marino had printed with my face on them. It's a privilege reserved for kings and queens.
- From an interview by Elvira Serra, Gina Lollobrigida: «Mi sposai per dimenticare uno stupro. Mio figlio? Un debole che non ragiona», corriere.it, 15 September 2018.
- From an interview by Gianfranco Gramola, intervisteromane.net, 30 January 2017
- I wasn't passionate about cinema. I did it to help my family. We were displaced in Rome and needed to eat. Those were the years when actors were picked up off the street. Some people stopped me as I was leaving school and asked me if I wanted to be in films, and I said no, that I wasn't interested. Then they offered me a thousand lire a day, and that convinced me to become an actress.
- (About acting) I think a little training is good, but I also believe that instinct is what wins out.
- There is less emotion in cinema today. There are stories that unfold in a setting of absolute futurism, and when I see them, I change the channel. In Italian cinema, when it was number one in the world, and that's what I was lucky enough to do, there was more emotion. People would watch a film and identify with it, they would cry and get emotional. There was something in the films that touched our emotions.
- A beautiful woman, even at seventy, is a beautiful woman, damn it, and if she has talent, you have to admit it, not despise the beautiful woman.
- What makes me angry is that they have always tried to take something away from women, and this continues today. It is always men who move forward and women who are always one step behind, and this is not fair. We should have a little equality.
- (About Marilyn Monroe) When we met, the first thing she told me was that they called her the American Gina Lollobrigida. She was surprisingly modest, and I immediately liked her.
Quotes about
[edit]- She makes Marilyn Monroe look like Shirley Temple.
- Humphrey Bogart, Time, 1954; quoted in La Lollo sposa a sua insaputa, il Giornale del Lusso.it, 30 January 2013.
