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Valeria Golino [1965-0] Italian
Rank: 101
Actress


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 Hot Shots! films. 


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I think that it helps that I have acted. That said, it doesn't mean you're going to be a good director.
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I can touch my toes, but I bend in a strange way. I'll never be in the Olympics.
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When I think of Italy now, I think of accessories, possessions, bad TV, fake boobs, BMWs.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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'Miele' is a code name for a girl who has a double life.
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What I am really curious about is the visuals of cinema... the form.
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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.
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