Top 11 Quotes & Sayings by Valeria Golino

Explore popular quotes and sayings by an Italian actress Valeria Golino.

Last updated on April 14, 2025.

Valeria Golino is an Italian actress and director. She is best known to English-language audiences for her roles in Rain Man, Big Top Pee-wee and the two Hot Shots! films, particularly the olive-in-the-belly-button scene. In addition to David di Donatello, Silver Ribbon, Golden Ciak and Italian Golden Globe awards, she is one of three actresses to have twice won the Best Actress award at the Venice Film Festival.

Italian - Actress | Born: October 22, 1965

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

Valeria Golino

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

Valeria Golino

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Valeria Golino

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

Valeria Golino