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Personally, I find it romantic not to be with someone all the time; you don't get used to someone or take them for granted. — Monica Bellucci
I always wear some make-up, even on quiet days when I am not doing so much with my time. I like to start using Dolce & Gabbana Perfect Finish Creamy Foundation as a base, as it's lighter than air and doesn't make me feel 'caked.' — 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
I love fairy tales because I think that behind fairy tales, there is always a meaning. — Monica Bellucci
I like to be in the spotlight once in a while, and then I like to be in the shadows. It's really regenerating. — 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
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
Instead of going to the gym, I dress in black - a lot more practical and much more fun. — Monica Bellucci
I was very shy as a girl. Absurdly shy, even. Maybe because I was an only child. And I think that's why I'm so happy to have two kids now. — Monica Bellucci
Wherever I go, I am Italian. The way I talk, the way I eat, the way femininity is important to me. The way I love Italian food. — 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
Because I'm pretty, everybody thinks I'm stupid. But it is like a mask, and you have to break the mask to show that there is something else behind it. You have to show who you are to make the others come to discover you. — Monica Bellucci
I think the person creates the artist. And I think when you get lost within your person, your artistry get lost, too. It's like in 'Birdman.' Because the artist inside you is attached to your soul. And when you're not attached to yourself anymore, the soul goes away. You can't let that happen. — Monica Bellucci
I don't stress myself about my looks. I love to laugh. I like being able to lead an interesting life. — Monica Bellucci
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. — Monica Bellucci
People are very passionate in Italy. If you like something, you like something. If you hate something, you hate something. When you hate something, you are screaming. — Monica Bellucci
There is this thing in America where actresses reach 40 and go mad. The film industry wants all these young people. — Monica Bellucci
I have a lot of adrenaline. I have a naturally fast system. But I love to eat, and I am not skinny. — Monica Bellucci
I grew up in Perugia, Umbria, in a world outside of fashion, so I didn't learn about it until I was older and moved away. In Milan, the women are really into fashion, and all the big fashion brands are based there, but I don't think they feel pressure to look good all the time. — Monica Bellucci
Sometimes I've done small parts, like with Spike Lee, but it doesn't matter because you want to work with the director. — Monica Bellucci
If you believe what you are on the red carpet, then you would have to go see a doctor, and there are so many actors like that. You have to know very well this is a moment of glamour, and when I go back home, I don't have the airbrush, and I have dark circles because I don't have the make-up on. — Monica Bellucci
I am an agnostic, even though I respect and am interested in all religions. If there's something I believe in, it's a mysterious energy; the one that fills the oceans during tides, the one that unites nature and beings. — Monica Bellucci
I'm not someone that wants to control everything. I like to work with people that bring their talents to the project. So I like it when the makeup artist has a chance to do their work, when the dresser does their work, when the director does their work. They all come with stories and ideas to think about. — Monica Bellucci
Beauty is a gift, just like good health or intelligence. The only thing is not to be proud of being beautiful. Because you didn't do anything - it was given to you. — Monica Bellucci
I am certainly Italian in my love of food! I eat everything, but I love Italian food most of all. Even my daughter does. Her favourite food is pasta and parmigiana. — Monica Bellucci
I know very well the difference between my image and who I am. — Monica Bellucci
My body is very shaped, and I like to be simple. I don't like to use so many colors. My best colors are black, white and blue. — 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
I think we can all be divas, but as an actress, you can't only be the diva; that would be boring. But sometimes, perhaps, it's fun. — Monica Bellucci
I like to do on screen what I'm not in life. In life, I'm much more weak and insecure, and so then you know I like to play characters that are stronger than me. — Monica Bellucci
I'm a true woman, not a Bond girl. That's why I say all the time, 'James Bond lady,' 'James Bond woman.' — Monica Bellucci
Truly, I am a woman of the last minute. When I was pregnant, I organised three different hospitals because I couldn't decide where I wanted to have my baby: London, Rome or Paris. In the end, I decided to go to Rome, arrived on the Monday and gave birth on the Saturday. — Monica Bellucci
I come from a Catholic religion, but I'm not Catholic. — Monica Bellucci
I have always loved lipstick. For women, that love comes from our mother and grandmothers. It's so natural for a woman to open up her mirror and apply lipstick. — 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
Sometimes when we think about femininity, we think also fragile. But I think you can be feminine and very strong. I think make-up goes with that femininity. I think it's a natural gesture for women and one they do more for themselves than for others. — 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
It's complicated coming from a culture where to be a mother is more important than to have a career. — Monica Bellucci
The first time I was in London, I went to an English greasy spoon to get some breakfast and realised that all the waiters were speaking Italian. That's when it hit me what an international city this is. — Monica Bellucci
I've had old people in my life that I really loved - especially women - so I'm not scared about getting old. It's what's inside that makes us beautiful on the outside. — Monica Bellucci
Men have the power in everything: journalism, acting, direction; in banks, finances, schools. All the laws are made by men. Men think that women, when they're not able to procreate any more, become old. That is not true - they are still amazing! — Monica Bellucci
Listen, I had two kids - one when I was 40, one when I was 45. I breastfed for one year, which means I was breastfeeding four years ago. I'm going to move from giving birth to menopause without really realising. — Monica Bellucci
I wouldn't want to be 20 again for anything. — Monica Bellucci
If You want a man to notice you, just wear red lipstick — 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
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
I think the lawyers are such incredible actors. Can you imagine the performance they have to do every day? — Monica Bellucci
I wanted to do 'Matrix' because when I saw the first one, I was in Paris, and I came out from the movie and said, 'Wow - I've never seen something like that; it's so incredible.' — Monica Bellucci
Lipstick is the most valuable weapon in a woman's make-up kit. It has the power to transform the appearance and mood of the person wearing it, and, at the same time, arouses the admiration of everybody else. — 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
We should not be worried about age when it comes to love and attraction. — Monica Bellucci
Being an actress is the sublimation of feminity. — Monica Bellucci
For me, true beauty has nothing to do with wrinkles and everything to do with the fact that my maternal grandmother raised five children just after the war and remained a fighter throughout her life. True beauty is the slick of red lipstick my paternal grandmother would put on before going to church on Sunday. — Monica Bellucci
An actor works with their soul and their thought. — Monica Bellucci
British people don't express when they are in pain. They don't think it's elegant. — Monica Bellucci
I went to a modeling agency and said I wanted to be a model. I worked, worked, worked so much while I was studying. — Monica Bellucci
In acting process, it's very difficult to explain. It's something very intimate, very private. — Monica Bellucci
When a relationship doesn't work anymore, it's terrible to stay with someone that you don't love. — Monica Bellucci
Envy is human nature. — 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
When someone is suffering, you have to see this in the body and the face. I say all the time that actors use their bodies like objects of war. — Monica Bellucci
After love, the man sleeps, while the woman reflects. — Monica Bellucci
When I have to go to Cannes, that is boring to me. — Monica Bellucci
In so many places in the world, women have been prisoners for so long that they feel they have to scream about their rights. But when you scream, nobody listens to you. Real authority comes when you no longer need to scream - and that's something we women still need to learn. — Monica Bellucci
When you're in front of the camera, you have to try to create different emotions because even the person making pictures of you needs inspiration. To be 'you' means nothing - you can be so many yous. — Monica Bellucci
I like when I have to act and direct; then, when you have to dub, you're by yourself in front of the wall, and I'm always scared that you're not good like when you are in real when you act. — Monica Bellucci
We had a moment in the '40s and '50s, where female characters were very strong in film, where these incredible roles were written for women like Joan Crawford, like Bette Davis. But then there was a space of time where - I don't know why - it wasn't like that. It became difficult for women to find certain roles after a certain age. — Monica Bellucci
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. — 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
Do you know who I would love to play? Morticia Addams - then I could use all that darkness to be funny. — Monica Bellucci
I'm not a movie star. I'm just an actress. — Monica Bellucci
Time destroys everything. — 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
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
I speak a little Portuguese, but my daughter speaks it better than me. I always feel that Italy is my home, but it is important for my husband that we also live in France. Sometimes we live as a family all together, but as we are two working actors, sometimes we have to be apart. Sometimes I'm shooting a movie; sometimes he is. — Monica Bellucci
If I do a role where I have to lose weight, I can do that. I eat meat, fish, vegetables, and I lose it right away. But sometimes I do a role where I have to gain weight, and I can tell you I prefer that. — Monica Bellucci
The single woman is a free woman, and being single does not mean being alone - it means being free to have a relationship or not. This can be scary, but it's also very interesting. — Monica Bellucci
Come see me anytime but make sure to give me advance notice so I can leave town. — Lucille Bellucci
When I first met Sam Mendes, I was a bit confused and said to him, 'I'm 50 years old. What am I going to do at 50 in a Bond film?' — Monica Bellucci
In France, they call the beauty of youth 'the evil beauty.' You don't have it because of you but because you're born with it. The other kind of beauty is your own work, and it takes forever. — Monica Bellucci
I'm Italian; I take my time. We're not really fast. We're very slow. I had my first child at 40, my second child at 45, James Bond at 50. I'm so curious as to what's next! — Monica Bellucci
I don't know Hollywood very well. I've never lived in Los Angeles or New York. But what I can see in Paris, where I live, is that actresses like Catherine Deneuve, Isabelle Huppert, Charlotte Rampling, still get the chance to play strong, sexy roles even though they're not 20. — Monica Bellucci
What's natural is beautiful, and when you're not you anymore, you become a caricature. — Monica Bellucci
I love jewelry - gold and diamonds. I'm a woman. — Monica Bellucci
My career, at the moment, is very exciting, but love comes first because it balances me. — 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
If a man sees a woman with red lipstick, he admires her, but often he won't feel like kissing her. — Monica Bellucci
I like a movie that brings out many discussions. From my experience, every time I have done movies, they create this kind of situation. Like 'Irreversible,' 'The Passion of the Christ,' 'Malena'; it's so interesting. I like to explore the dark side of humanity. That's why I'm an actor. — Monica Bellucci
Usually, I'm only sad when something sad happens. I am not a melancholic person. I like to live very much in the present. If I was an animal, I'd be a little cat. They like to live life. — Monica Bellucci
I like comedies, I like thrillers, I like love stories. Everything is beautiful; it depends if the film is good, who cares? Everything is interesting. — Monica Bellucci
I can't say I'm a Bond girl because I'm too mature to be a Bond girl. I say Bond lady; Bond woman. But I'm proud to be a Bond lady, because actually, Bond is the most amazing man. — Monica Bellucci
People assume I work hard on my body, but I honestly don't. — Monica Bellucci