"He wanted me to love him unconditionally, but Jimmy was not able to love someone else in return . . . it was the troubled boy that wanted to be loved very badly. I loved Jimmy as I have loved no one else in my life, but I could not give him the enormous amount that he needed. Loving Jimmy was something that could empty a person." A proposito di James Dean.

(Anna Maria Pierangeli, nota anche con lo pseudonimo di Pier Angeli nei paesi anglofoni; Cagliari, 19 giugno 1932 – Beverly Hills, 10 settembre 1971)