Marcello Mastroianni - biography

“I don’t understand why these Americans have to suffer so much to identify with their characters.  Me, I just get up there and act.  It’s great fun.  There’s no suffering in it.”

“I made theater very important in the beginning of my career.”

“I’m like the man I play so often - indolent.”

“I’ve been given love scenes to do that read like political speeches.”

“The less you do, the better you do it.”

“Theater actors like to change character roles.  They don’t like to always do the same thing.”

“To play Tarzan - at my age, with a big belly; even Cheetah with white hair.  We’ve had enough beautiful and strong Tarzans!”

“Generally somewhat mad.  They’re very good actors but they suffer too much - getting fat, skinny.  They’re upset by an interior battle.”

“Fellini’s my favourite - between us, I don’t know who’s more of a child.”

“My father went blind just as my films were starting.  And my mother was deaf.  They’d go to the cinema together and one would say: ‘What’s he look like?’ and the other would say: ‘What does he say?’”

“If only God could create a lawyer who could make deals in ten minutes.”

“The preparation, the flirtation, the use of the eyes - that’s more stimulating than any drugs.”

“Each year we look for a big name that is attractive to the public and pleasant for the girls.”

“With whom do you argue?  With a woman, of course.  Not with a friend, because he accepted all your defects the moment he found you.  Besides, woman is mother-have we forgotten?”

“Woman is also the element of conflict.”

“Woman is the sun, an extraordinary creature, one that makes the imagination gallop.”

“As women become more liberated, men don’t know how to act.  They’re afraid of looking ridiculous, so they look bored.  Sometimes they really are apathetic.  But most of the time, it’s a cover-up, because they honestly don’t know what the hell has happened to the relationship between the sexes.”

“I only exist when I am working on a film.”

“In front of a camera, I feel solid, satisfied.  Away from it I am empty, confused.”

“The public are people like me who don’t know what to do.  So, they go to the movies.”

“They come for you in the morning in a limousine; they take you to the studio; they stick a pretty girl in your arms...  They call that a profession?  Come on!”

Marcello Mastroianni has appeared in the following films:
Marionette (1939)
Una Storia d’amore (1942)
I Bambini ci guardano (1944)
Vertigine d’amore (1948)
I Miserabili (1948)
Vent’anni (1949)
Contro la legge (1950)
Domenica d’agosto (1950)
Vita da cani (1950)
Cuori sul mare (1950)
A Tale of Five Cities (1951)
Atto d’accusa (1951)
Parigi è sempre Parigi (1951)
L’ Eterna catena (1952)
Tragico ritorno (1952)
La Muta di Portici (1952)
Sensualità (1952)
Le Ragazze di piazza di Spagna (1952)
Penne nere (1952)
Gli Eroi della domenica (1953)
La Valigia dei sogni (1953)
Il Viale della speranza (1953)
Febbre di vivere (1953)
Lulù (1953)
Non è mai troppo tardi (1953)
Schiava del peccato (1954)
La Principessa delle Canarie (1954)
Cronache di poveri amanti (1954)
Tempi nostri (1954)
Giorni d’amore (1954)
Casa Ricordi (1954)
Peccato che sia una canaglia (1954)
Tam tam mayumbe (1955)
La Bella mugnaia (1955)
La Fortuna di essere donna (1956)
Il Bigamo (1956)
Il Medico e lo stregone (1957)
Padri e figli (1957)
Il Momento più bello (1957)
La Ragazza della salina (1957)
Le Notti bianche (1957)
Racconti d’estate (1958)
Amore e guai (1958)
I Soliti ignoti (1958)
Un Ettaro di cielo (1959)
Il Nemico di mia moglie (1959)
La Legge (1959)
Tutti innamorati (1959)
Ferdinando I re di Napoli (1959)
Adua e le compagne (1960)
La Dolce vita (1960)
Il Bell’Antonio (1960)
Fantasmi a Roma (1961)
La Notte (1961)
L’ Assassino (1961)
Divorzio all’italiana (1961)
Vie privée (1962)
Cronaca familiare (1962)
8½ (1963)
I Compagni (1963)
Ieri, oggi, domani (1963)
Matrimonio all’italiana (1964)
Io, io, io e gli altri (1965)
L’ Uomo dei cinque palloni (1965)
Oggi, domani, dopodomani (1965)
Casanova ’70 (1965)
La Decima vittima (1965)
Poppies Are Also Flowers (1966)
Spara forte, più forte, non capisco (1966)
Lo Straniero (1967)
Questi fantasmi (1968)
Amanti (1968)
Diamonds for Breakfast (1968)
Giochi particolari (1970)
Dramma della gelosia – tutti i particolari in cronaca (1970)
I Girasoli (1970)
Leo the Last (1970)
Permette? Rocco Papaleo (1971)
Scipione detto anche l’africano (1971)
La Moglie del prete (1971)
Ça n’arrive qu’aux autres (1971)
Liza (1972)
What? (1972)
L’Événement le plus important depuis que l’homme a marché sur la lune (1973)
Allonsanfan (1973)
Mordi e fuggi (1973)
La Grande bouffe (1973)
Rappresaglia (1973)
Salut l’artiste (1973)
Touche pas à la femme blanche (1974)
La Pupa del gangster (1975)
Per le antiche scale (1975)
Todo modo (1976)
Culastrisce nobile veneziano (1976)
La Donna della domenica (1976)
Divina creatura (1976)
Mogliamante (1977)
Una Giornata particolare (1977)
Doppio delitto (1977)
Giallo napoletano (1978)
Ciao maschio (1978)
Signore e signori, buonanotte (1978)
Così come sei (1978)
Fatto di sangue fra due uomini per causa di una vedova – si sospettano moventi politici (1978)
L’Ingorgo – Una storia impossibile (1979)
La Città delle donne (1980)
La Terrazza (1980)
Fantasma d’amore (1981)
La Pelle (1981)
La Nuit de Varennes (1982)
Oltre la porta (1982)
Gabriela, Cravo e Canela (1983)
Storia di Piera (1983)
Il Generale dell’armata morte (1983)
Enrico IV (1984)
Le Due vite di Mattia Pascal (1985)
Maccheroni (1985)
The Beekeeper (1986)
Ginger e Fred (1986)
Miss Arizona (1987)
I Soliti ignoti vent’anni dopo (1987)
Oci ciornie (1987)
Splendor (1989)
Che ora è? (1989)
Stanno tutti bene (1990)
Cin cin (1991)
Verso sera (1991)
To Meteoro vima tou pelargou (1991)
Le Voleur d’enfants (1991)
Used People (1992)
De eso no se habla (1993)
Un, deux, trois, soleil (1993)
Prêt-à-Porter (1994)
Les Cent et une nuits de Simon Cinéma (1995)
Al di là delle nuvole (1995)
Sostiene Pereira (1996)
Trois vies et une seule mort (1996)
Viagem ao Princípio do Mundo (1997)