"The fact I'm making movies is just an accident."
"When they asked me 'do you want to be in the movies?' I said no and they insisted for six months."
"They gave me everything. It's marvelous to live so many lives. I've been living more than 150 lives, totally different women."
Claudia Cardinale died in Nemours, France at age 87, surrounded by her children. She starred in more than 100 films and television productions and was best known for roles in Federico Fellini's 8½, Luchino Visconti's The Leopard, and Sergio Leone's Once Upon a Time in the West. Born in Tunisia to Sicilian parents, she began her film career at 17 after winning a beauty contest that brought her to the Venice Film Festival. She initially planned to become a school teacher and was compared to contemporaries such as Sophia Loren and Brigitte Bardot while working with leading European and Hollywood directors.
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