Anita Ekberg (Actor)

"Anita is very simpatica, but not at all intelligent. Fellini adored her, but he treated her like a big doll. I told him people kept asking me to ask him if he had ever slept with her, and Fellini laughed and replied, 'By all means, tell them yes.'" --Fellini biographer and film critic Tullio Kezich quoted in THE NEW YORK TIMES, June 13, 1999

On working with Fellini. Ekberg told Allesandra Stanley: "I didn't speak Italian and he didn't speak English at that time. We communicated by looking at each other. It was most amazing. We didn't need dialogue very often. With the little Italian I knew, and the little English he knew, we communicated very well." --From THE NEW YORK TIMES, June 13, 1999