Maria Grazia Cucinotta's Quotes

Give me something to do and you will make me happy.

I am curious, I love making discoveries, travelling, speaking with people, go shopping.

I decided to an actress because of the film 'La Dolce Vita.'

I took acting and elocution lessons, to get rid of my Sicilian accent.

I was born in Messina, Sicily. I stayed there until I was 18 and finished my studies.

It is better to laugh than cry.

It is so fantastic being an actress because you have the chance to be a thousand different people when you act.

Rome is magic, it's like being in Hollywood. But the difference between Hollywood and Rome is that here you don't have just the movie business. The movie business is so little, so you also have the choice to hang out with people who do different kinds of business.

A lot of politicians, not surprisingly, hire consultants to help them with their nonverbals, presence, generally how they come across.

Being a comfortable public speaker, which involves easily being able to go off-script, strongly signals competence.

Trust is the conduit for influence; it's the medium through which ideas travel.

I sometimes work with a communications and media training firm called KNP Communications. It's nice to bring the research to the practitioners; I learn a lot watching how they put it into practice, and I know they like to be on top of what's happening on the research front.

It's not uncommon for people to overvalue the importance of demonstrating their competence and power, often at the expense of demonstrating their warmth.

Politicians are very experienced - maybe too experienced - at using body language to signal power and competence. But what these politicians are much more likely to struggle with, or just neglect to do altogether, is communicate warmth and trustworthiness.