Monica Bellucci Best Quotes & Sayings

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

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

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

To be a lawyer was too boring for me, for my personality. — 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

Love does not go away, it changes. — Monica Bellucci

We all need illusions. That's why we love movies. — Monica Bellucci

I feel fine and comfortable with myself, but not because I'm beautiful. — 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 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

Do not hate the people who are jealous because they recognize that you are the best. — Monica Bellucci

British people don't express when they are in pain. They don't think it's elegant. — 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

An actor works with their soul and their thought. — Monica Bellucci

When I have to go to Cannes, that is boring to me. — 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

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

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

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

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