Cristiana Dell'Anna

“I don’t like the word ‘boundaries’ […]. I wish they didn’t exist.”

“When I look back, she never took no for an answer, and sometimes by repeating the story, I lost the meaning of it. Now that I am talking to you, I do remember again what it meant. It meant that she believed in her thoughts and she had self‑confidence, self‑love, and she respected herself and others.”

“I thought, ‘If I don't get the part, I'll be the most miserable person in my life because she's wonderful.’”

“I wanted to be her.”

“Life is about overcoming obstacles, especially for women, so it's a constant battle and you have to remind yourself that if you do nothing, then things will go wrong, but you have to keep acting, you have to keep doing the right things for things to go right.”