A little child has a beautiful doll. The child loves the doll, but then wants to break the doll to see what's inside. We are the same.
Monica Bellucci
Acting is not words. Holly Hunter didn't speak in The Piano (1993) and she won an Oscar
Monica Bellucci
After a while in marriage, it doesn't work anymore. There is something missing, there is something wrong. There are few marriages that stay alive forever. We like something, and after a while, we hate what we used to love.
Monica Bellucci
After love, the man sleeps, while the woman reflects.
Monica Bellucci
All my choices are a bit strange. In Malena, I have strong scenes. In Tears of the Sun I'm dirty and full of mud all over and I have tears all the time.
Monica Bellucci
An actor works with their soul and their thought.
Monica Bellucci
As a European, I need to stay in Europe and I make Italian movies, French movies. Then to come to America is something interesting for me.
Monica Bellucci
As a woman I am so curious about prostitutes because of the idea that they know men better than you. Also, it's such a strange way to live. But at the same time there are prostitutes who just want to be prostitutes, and this is this woman, nobody pushed her to do it. She's a prostitute because she wants to be a prostitute. It's her philosophy of life.
Monica Bellucci
Beauty becomes alive and interesting when it's habited.
Monica Bellucci
Being an actress is the sublimation of feminity.
Monica Bellucci
Envy is human nature.
Monica Bellucci
Everyone knows the history of Jesus. So, when you're going to see what happened, you've heard about him so many times that you'll understand what's going on.
Monica Bellucci
For women in the film it was difficult to be there with just men around. It's difficult to have the perseverance to exist as a character when you're a female in the middle of all those men.
Monica Bellucci
I believe that time destroys everything. You can take one beautiful apple, red. After a while, it becomes shrivelled and full of worms, just like what happens to us.
Monica Bellucci
I believe we have a natural instinct which is very strong. If we get into it and try to understand all we have inside, we can find the power we have.
Monica Bellucci
I come from a Catholic religion, but I'm not Catholic.
Monica Bellucci
I could never live there. They are obsessed with youth and beauty even more than us. There is this thing in America where actresses reach 40 and go mad. The film industry wants all these young people. They also like a different sort of woman (to me). I will never be skinny. I also had a child a year ago, and I have been lazy. I love to eat. Who cares? I am natural.
Monica Bellucci
I didn't have familiarity with children. I'm learning day after day, with her. And what impress me the most is that she, Deva, is an individual person. But in miniature, she seems to be a special effect.
Monica Bellucci
I didn't read any script because we didn't have a script. You have to be really confident when you work with that.
Monica Bellucci
I don't know America very well because each time that I come, it's for five days or I'm shooting or I do some appointments and then I go back.
Monica Bellucci
I don't think I want to do films like Irreversible every day because it takes so much out of me. You have to give so much.
Monica Bellucci
I feel fine and comfortable with myself, but not because I'm beautiful. I know many beautiful people and their lives are just so terrible. They feel so uncomfortable with themselves. Being comfortable is not about what you look like, but how you feel. I'm a lucky person because I've been loved a lot. I have a great family.
Monica Bellucci
I have my way to do action. I don't jump on the wall, I don't fight, I have another way to fight.
Monica Bellucci
I have no idea how I'm perceived in America because I don't live the reality of America.
Monica Bellucci
I have nothing against comedy. I'm looking for the right thing.
Monica Bellucci
I hear that everybody is talking about the Passion film being controversial, and nobody has seen the movie. Visually it's going to be beautiful and strong, but I don't understand what can be so controversial.
Monica Bellucci
I knew that this would happen. It's a great moment, but I know it won't be like that forever.
Monica Bellucci
I know I'm going to see people that I love die before me because they're older. I know that I have to get through all those horrible things in life.
Monica Bellucci
I learned how a body could speak. Acting is not words. Holly Hunter didn't speak in The Piano, and she won an Oscar.
Monica Bellucci
I listen to "young" music, the one from my age. I adore soul, rap and funky.
Monica Bellucci
I live in Paris but I feel I am a daughter of Europe.
Monica Bellucci
I need to stay in Europe and make Italian movies, French movies.
Monica Bellucci
I think the lawyers are such incredible actors. Can you imagine the performance they have to do every day?
Monica Bellucci
I think this is something that touches every country - America, Italy, France, England, all over. You will see all these people, they don't know how to sing, they don't know how to dance, and still they become famous. You know, just celebrities. And I think this is a very dangerous process.
Monica Bellucci
I think what Mel Gibson wanted to do is really a strong visual movie, and what I've seen looks really beautiful like a painting.
Monica Bellucci
I turned down so many things because even though they can be huge, successful movies, just because it's not my kind of thing, and I follow what I feel.
Monica Bellucci
I work in Hollywood but I never stay in Hollywood. I don't have a house. I don't need to live in America to work in America.
Monica Bellucci
If you have a script that's not great, if you have a great director, you can make a great movie, but if you have a great script with a director who's not good, never are you going to have a good movie.
Monica Bellucci
I'll do my best for the performance. I try to be real, I try to be deep and strong.
Monica Bellucci
I'm a lucky person because I've been loved a lot. I have a great family.
Monica Bellucci
I'm European and to come into this country and have the possibility to work with really young and talented directors like the Wachowski Brothers is great.
Monica Bellucci
I'm not a movie star. I'm just an actress.
Monica Bellucci
I'm not ready to do an American movie just because it's American.
Monica Bellucci
I'm not scared by nudity, because for me, nothing is more beautiful than a body. You can have such an amazing emotion from a body. In Irréversible (2002), I treated my body like it was an object and it's great when you can have this kind of relation with your body, it's a part of your job, an object you can work with. When you can have this kind of freedom it's the moment where you can give your best as an actress"
Monica Bellucci
I'm sure we have the power also to see things, but it's going to happen in many, many years.
Monica Bellucci
In 10 years I've done so many things. In the beginning I didn't know if I was still a model, if I was an actress. I knew I wanted to be an actress, but it was so difficult to be believed. Now things are going better and better and the proposals I have are much more interesting than five years ago. It's like getting older is getting better.
Monica Bellucci
In a couple, sometimes, one or both people have to give up their personal life, dreams and ambitions for the good of the family.
Monica Bellucci
In acting process, it's very difficult to explain. It's something very intimate, very private.
Monica Bellucci
In Italy, the concept of the family is very important.
Monica Bellucci
Irreversible did well with controversial. It's good to be controversial. I have nothing against controversial.
Monica Bellucci
Irreversible is not glamorous at all. I try to do different things because I want to grow as an actress and I like to take risks.
Monica Bellucci
Irreversible was such a strong film and very intense.
Monica Bellucci
It is a handicap if you're stupid, but not if you are intelligent and know how to use your beauty.
Monica Bellucci
It was difficult to be in the jungle for five months.
Monica Bellucci
It's always a tragedy when people leave each other. It's so difficult to give lessons about this subject.
Monica Bellucci
It's great as an actress to work in many countries, different cultures.
Monica Bellucci
It's not about the beauty, the charm or the sensual appearance; it's more about acting and that's what I'm happy about.
Monica Bellucci
It's not the Jews that killed Christ. It was a political situation, and it was the Romans who killed Jesus. They put Jesus on the cross, not the Jews.
Monica Bellucci
Many men wait for women to make the decisions. He feels like he can't express himself.
Monica Bellucci
Maybe it's natural of human beings to kill what we love.
Monica Bellucci
Maybe the reason I work a lot is because each director thinks that I'll be better with him. Maybe the moment where I'll be completely accepted I won't work any more.
Monica Bellucci
Mel is a great director because he's not just a director, he's an actor, so he knows how to direct actors. I loved working with him. He's great as a director. He's so intelligent. He's generous. I really loved him.
Monica Bellucci
My body is so important to me... my face, my arms, my legs, my hands, my eyes, everything. I use everything I have.
Monica Bellucci
My career, at the moment, is very exciting, but love comes first because it balances me.
Monica Bellucci
My character is Persephone. She's like a vampire of emotions. There is something really tragic about her because she doesn't have any feelings.
Monica Bellucci
Never am I going to refuse European films.
Monica Bellucci
Now, all the movies are for teenagers. It's very difficult for an actress to find really deep, beautiful characters to play.
Monica Bellucci
Some movies go deep inside you and then you have to see the monsters we have inside.
Monica Bellucci
Sometimes it's more difficult to exist as a female lead, especially in action movies because all those men are around you. They take so much place.
Monica Bellucci
Sometimes, words are too small to express all the concepts. The film Passion is going to talk more than the words.
Monica Bellucci
The best moment for me as an actress is when I'm preparing my character.
Monica Bellucci
The human intelligence has progressed at the technological level; not a the level of feelings.
Monica Bellucci
There are so many things going on here. Everything goes so fast compared to Europe.
Monica Bellucci
This is what I like about America, because you have very big budget movie, and also independent movies, so you have many different choices. But I know that I'm European... Being European, it is not easy to find the right project, because you may look different, you sound different, and you have to find the right character.
Monica Bellucci
Time destroys everything.
Monica Bellucci
To stay together as a couple, you have to satisfy so many things, and there is a moment when maybe you explode.
Monica Bellucci
Vincent was so incredible, so sweet. When we went to Cannes for the film, you know the moment when I come out from the tunnel and we see me for the first time completely with blood all over, he was crying. I said, 'Vincent, come on. It's just a movie. We know it's not real.
Monica Bellucci
We all need illusions. That's why we love movies.
Monica Bellucci
We all yell a lot, which is typical of Italian people. We yell by phone and we yell all the time.
Monica Bellucci
When a relationship doesn't work anymore, it's terrible to stay with someone that you don't love.
Monica Bellucci
When I come here, I get skinnier and my heart goes so fast, and I don't walk, I run. Everything, so many phone calls and so many things to do.
Monica Bellucci
When I eat with my friends, it is a moment of real pleasure, when I really enjoy my life.
Monica Bellucci
When I have to go to Cannes, that is boring to me.
Monica Bellucci
When I make an American movie it's going to come out all over the world-it doesn't happen the same way for an Italian film or a French film.
Monica Bellucci
When I'll be old, I'd rather watch my children than my films.
Monica Bellucci
When people divorce, it's always such a tragedy. At the same time, if people stay together it can be even worse.
Monica Bellucci
When you see a silent movie, you understand everything that's going on from the images because the images are so strong.
Monica Bellucci
When you're in front of the camera, for a small budget or a big budget movie, there's no difference.
Monica Bellucci
You will see all these people, they don't know how to sing, they don't know how to dance, and still they become famous. You know, just celebrities. I think this is a very dangerous process.
Monica Bellucci
Monica Bellucci
Acting is not words. Holly Hunter didn't speak in The Piano (1993) and she won an Oscar
Monica Bellucci
After a while in marriage, it doesn't work anymore. There is something missing, there is something wrong. There are few marriages that stay alive forever. We like something, and after a while, we hate what we used to love.
Monica Bellucci
After love, the man sleeps, while the woman reflects.
Monica Bellucci
All my choices are a bit strange. In Malena, I have strong scenes. In Tears of the Sun I'm dirty and full of mud all over and I have tears all the time.
Monica Bellucci
An actor works with their soul and their thought.
Monica Bellucci
As a European, I need to stay in Europe and I make Italian movies, French movies. Then to come to America is something interesting for me.
Monica Bellucci
As a woman I am so curious about prostitutes because of the idea that they know men better than you. Also, it's such a strange way to live. But at the same time there are prostitutes who just want to be prostitutes, and this is this woman, nobody pushed her to do it. She's a prostitute because she wants to be a prostitute. It's her philosophy of life.
Monica Bellucci
Beauty becomes alive and interesting when it's habited.
Monica Bellucci
Being an actress is the sublimation of feminity.
Monica Bellucci
Envy is human nature.
Monica Bellucci
Everyone knows the history of Jesus. So, when you're going to see what happened, you've heard about him so many times that you'll understand what's going on.
Monica Bellucci
For women in the film it was difficult to be there with just men around. It's difficult to have the perseverance to exist as a character when you're a female in the middle of all those men.
Monica Bellucci
I believe that time destroys everything. You can take one beautiful apple, red. After a while, it becomes shrivelled and full of worms, just like what happens to us.
Monica Bellucci
I believe we have a natural instinct which is very strong. If we get into it and try to understand all we have inside, we can find the power we have.
Monica Bellucci
I come from a Catholic religion, but I'm not Catholic.
Monica Bellucci
I could never live there. They are obsessed with youth and beauty even more than us. There is this thing in America where actresses reach 40 and go mad. The film industry wants all these young people. They also like a different sort of woman (to me). I will never be skinny. I also had a child a year ago, and I have been lazy. I love to eat. Who cares? I am natural.
Monica Bellucci
I didn't have familiarity with children. I'm learning day after day, with her. And what impress me the most is that she, Deva, is an individual person. But in miniature, she seems to be a special effect.
Monica Bellucci
I didn't read any script because we didn't have a script. You have to be really confident when you work with that.
Monica Bellucci
I don't know America very well because each time that I come, it's for five days or I'm shooting or I do some appointments and then I go back.
Monica Bellucci
I don't think I want to do films like Irreversible every day because it takes so much out of me. You have to give so much.
Monica Bellucci
I feel fine and comfortable with myself, but not because I'm beautiful. I know many beautiful people and their lives are just so terrible. They feel so uncomfortable with themselves. Being comfortable is not about what you look like, but how you feel. I'm a lucky person because I've been loved a lot. I have a great family.
Monica Bellucci
I have my way to do action. I don't jump on the wall, I don't fight, I have another way to fight.
Monica Bellucci
I have no idea how I'm perceived in America because I don't live the reality of America.
Monica Bellucci
I have nothing against comedy. I'm looking for the right thing.
Monica Bellucci
I hear that everybody is talking about the Passion film being controversial, and nobody has seen the movie. Visually it's going to be beautiful and strong, but I don't understand what can be so controversial.
Monica Bellucci
I knew that this would happen. It's a great moment, but I know it won't be like that forever.
Monica Bellucci
I know I'm going to see people that I love die before me because they're older. I know that I have to get through all those horrible things in life.
Monica Bellucci
I learned how a body could speak. Acting is not words. Holly Hunter didn't speak in The Piano, and she won an Oscar.
Monica Bellucci
I listen to "young" music, the one from my age. I adore soul, rap and funky.
Monica Bellucci
I live in Paris but I feel I am a daughter of Europe.
Monica Bellucci
I need to stay in Europe and make Italian movies, French movies.
Monica Bellucci
I think the lawyers are such incredible actors. Can you imagine the performance they have to do every day?
Monica Bellucci
I think this is something that touches every country - America, Italy, France, England, all over. You will see all these people, they don't know how to sing, they don't know how to dance, and still they become famous. You know, just celebrities. And I think this is a very dangerous process.
Monica Bellucci
I think what Mel Gibson wanted to do is really a strong visual movie, and what I've seen looks really beautiful like a painting.
Monica Bellucci
I turned down so many things because even though they can be huge, successful movies, just because it's not my kind of thing, and I follow what I feel.
Monica Bellucci
I work in Hollywood but I never stay in Hollywood. I don't have a house. I don't need to live in America to work in America.
Monica Bellucci
If you have a script that's not great, if you have a great director, you can make a great movie, but if you have a great script with a director who's not good, never are you going to have a good movie.
Monica Bellucci
I'll do my best for the performance. I try to be real, I try to be deep and strong.
Monica Bellucci
I'm a lucky person because I've been loved a lot. I have a great family.
Monica Bellucci
I'm European and to come into this country and have the possibility to work with really young and talented directors like the Wachowski Brothers is great.
Monica Bellucci
I'm not a movie star. I'm just an actress.
Monica Bellucci
I'm not ready to do an American movie just because it's American.
Monica Bellucci
I'm not scared by nudity, because for me, nothing is more beautiful than a body. You can have such an amazing emotion from a body. In Irréversible (2002), I treated my body like it was an object and it's great when you can have this kind of relation with your body, it's a part of your job, an object you can work with. When you can have this kind of freedom it's the moment where you can give your best as an actress"
Monica Bellucci
I'm sure we have the power also to see things, but it's going to happen in many, many years.
Monica Bellucci
In 10 years I've done so many things. In the beginning I didn't know if I was still a model, if I was an actress. I knew I wanted to be an actress, but it was so difficult to be believed. Now things are going better and better and the proposals I have are much more interesting than five years ago. It's like getting older is getting better.
Monica Bellucci
In a couple, sometimes, one or both people have to give up their personal life, dreams and ambitions for the good of the family.
Monica Bellucci
In acting process, it's very difficult to explain. It's something very intimate, very private.
Monica Bellucci
In Italy, the concept of the family is very important.
Monica Bellucci
Irreversible did well with controversial. It's good to be controversial. I have nothing against controversial.
Monica Bellucci
Irreversible is not glamorous at all. I try to do different things because I want to grow as an actress and I like to take risks.
Monica Bellucci
Irreversible was such a strong film and very intense.
Monica Bellucci
It is a handicap if you're stupid, but not if you are intelligent and know how to use your beauty.
Monica Bellucci
It was difficult to be in the jungle for five months.
Monica Bellucci
It's always a tragedy when people leave each other. It's so difficult to give lessons about this subject.
Monica Bellucci
It's great as an actress to work in many countries, different cultures.
Monica Bellucci
It's not about the beauty, the charm or the sensual appearance; it's more about acting and that's what I'm happy about.
Monica Bellucci
It's not the Jews that killed Christ. It was a political situation, and it was the Romans who killed Jesus. They put Jesus on the cross, not the Jews.
Monica Bellucci
Many men wait for women to make the decisions. He feels like he can't express himself.
Monica Bellucci
Maybe it's natural of human beings to kill what we love.
Monica Bellucci
Maybe the reason I work a lot is because each director thinks that I'll be better with him. Maybe the moment where I'll be completely accepted I won't work any more.
Monica Bellucci
Mel is a great director because he's not just a director, he's an actor, so he knows how to direct actors. I loved working with him. He's great as a director. He's so intelligent. He's generous. I really loved him.
Monica Bellucci
My body is so important to me... my face, my arms, my legs, my hands, my eyes, everything. I use everything I have.
Monica Bellucci
My career, at the moment, is very exciting, but love comes first because it balances me.
Monica Bellucci
My character is Persephone. She's like a vampire of emotions. There is something really tragic about her because she doesn't have any feelings.
Monica Bellucci
Never am I going to refuse European films.
Monica Bellucci
Now, all the movies are for teenagers. It's very difficult for an actress to find really deep, beautiful characters to play.
Monica Bellucci
Some movies go deep inside you and then you have to see the monsters we have inside.
Monica Bellucci
Sometimes it's more difficult to exist as a female lead, especially in action movies because all those men are around you. They take so much place.
Monica Bellucci
Sometimes, words are too small to express all the concepts. The film Passion is going to talk more than the words.
Monica Bellucci
The best moment for me as an actress is when I'm preparing my character.
Monica Bellucci
The human intelligence has progressed at the technological level; not a the level of feelings.
Monica Bellucci
There are so many things going on here. Everything goes so fast compared to Europe.
Monica Bellucci
This is what I like about America, because you have very big budget movie, and also independent movies, so you have many different choices. But I know that I'm European... Being European, it is not easy to find the right project, because you may look different, you sound different, and you have to find the right character.
Monica Bellucci
Time destroys everything.
Monica Bellucci
To stay together as a couple, you have to satisfy so many things, and there is a moment when maybe you explode.
Monica Bellucci
Vincent was so incredible, so sweet. When we went to Cannes for the film, you know the moment when I come out from the tunnel and we see me for the first time completely with blood all over, he was crying. I said, 'Vincent, come on. It's just a movie. We know it's not real.
Monica Bellucci
We all need illusions. That's why we love movies.
Monica Bellucci
We all yell a lot, which is typical of Italian people. We yell by phone and we yell all the time.
Monica Bellucci
When a relationship doesn't work anymore, it's terrible to stay with someone that you don't love.
Monica Bellucci
When I come here, I get skinnier and my heart goes so fast, and I don't walk, I run. Everything, so many phone calls and so many things to do.
Monica Bellucci
When I eat with my friends, it is a moment of real pleasure, when I really enjoy my life.
Monica Bellucci
When I have to go to Cannes, that is boring to me.
Monica Bellucci
When I make an American movie it's going to come out all over the world-it doesn't happen the same way for an Italian film or a French film.
Monica Bellucci
When I'll be old, I'd rather watch my children than my films.
Monica Bellucci
When people divorce, it's always such a tragedy. At the same time, if people stay together it can be even worse.
Monica Bellucci
When you see a silent movie, you understand everything that's going on from the images because the images are so strong.
Monica Bellucci
When you're in front of the camera, for a small budget or a big budget movie, there's no difference.
Monica Bellucci
You will see all these people, they don't know how to sing, they don't know how to dance, and still they become famous. You know, just celebrities. I think this is a very dangerous process.
Monica Bellucci
