Quotes from Monica Bellucci


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I'm a lucky person because I've been loved a lot. I have a great family.


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.


Envy is human nature.


I don't stress myself about my looks. I love to laugh. I like being able to lead an interesting life.


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.


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.


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.


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.


When a relationship doesn't work anymore, it's terrible to stay with someone that you don't love.


Time destroys everything.


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


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.


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.


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.


Being an actress is the sublimation of feminity.


When you see a silent movie, you understand everything that's going on from the images because the images are so strong.


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.


When I eat with my friends, it is a moment of real pleasure, when I really enjoy my life.


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.


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