Monica Bellucci - Quotes

• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• All the actors in Passion, even Jim Caviezel who plays Jesus, speaks just in Latin. It's a mix of Hebrew and Arab, and it's not just language.
• An actor works with their soul and their thought.
• Carrie-Ann Moss, Laurence Fishburne and Keanu Reeves were so nice to me. All my scenes are with them.
• Clockwork Orange, Pi, Requiem for a Dream, Deliverance, or Pasolini's movies... all those movies are so difficult to digest but there is meaning.
• Envy is human nature.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• I didn't read any script because we didn't have a script. You have to be really confident when you work with that.
• 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.
• 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.
• I feel fine and comfortable with myself, but not because I'm beautiful.
• I have my way to do action. I don't jump on the wall, I don't fight, I have another way to fight.
• I have no idea how I'm perceived in America because I don't live the reality of America.
• I have nothing against comedy. I'm looking for the right thing.
• 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.
• I knew that this would happen. It's a great moment, but I know it won't be like that forever.
• 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.
• 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 learned how a body could speak. Acting is not words. Holly Hunter didn't speak in The Piano, and she won an Oscar.
• I need to stay in Europe and make Italian movies, French movies.
• I think the lawyers are such incredible actors. Can you imagine the performance they have to do every day?
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• I'll do my best for the performance. I try to be real, I try to be deep and strong.
• I'm a lucky person because I've been loved a lot. I have a great family.
• 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.
• I'm not a movie star. I'm just an actress.
• I'm not ready to do an American movie just because it's American.
• I'm sure we have the power also to see things, but it's going to happen in many, many years.
• I've been a big fan of the Wachowski's ever since I saw Bound, and of course when I saw The Matrix, I fell in love with it like everybody.
• 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.
• In a couple, sometimes, one or both people have to give up their personal life, dreams and ambitions for the good of the family.
• In acting process, it's very difficult to explain. It's something very intimate, very private.
• In Italy, the concept of the family is very important.
• In The Passion, I play Mary Magdalene.
• Irreversible did well with controversial. It's good to be controversial. I have nothing against controversial.
• 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.
• Irreversible was such a strong film and very intense.
• It was difficult to be in the jungle for five months.
• It's always a tragedy when people leave each other. It's so difficult to give lessons about this subject.
• It's great as an actress to work in many countries, different cultures.
• 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.
• 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.
• Many men wait for women to make the decisions. He feels like he can't express himself.
• Maybe it's natural of human beings to kill what we love.
• 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.
• My body is so important to me... my face, my arms, my legs, my hands, my eyes, everything. I use everything I have.
• 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.
• Never am I going to refuse European films.
• Some movies go deep inside you and then you have to see the monsters we have inside.
• 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.
• Sometimes, words are too small to express all the concepts. The film Passion is going to talk more than the words.
• The best moment for me as an actress is when I'm preparing my character.
• There are so many things going on here. Everything goes so fast compared to Europe.
• Time destroys everything.
• To stay together as a couple, you have to satisfy so many things, and there is a moment when maybe you explode.
• We all need illusions. That's why we love movies.
• We all yell a lot, which is typical of Italian people. We yell by phone and we yell all the time.
• When a relationship doesn't work anymore, it's terrible to stay with someone that you don't love.
• 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.
• When I eat with my friends, it is a moment of real pleasure, when I really enjoy my life.
• When I have to go to Cannes, that is boring to me.
• 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.
• When people divorce, it's always such a tragedy. At the same time, if people stay together it can be even worse.
• When you see a silent movie, you understand everything that's going on from the images because the images are so strong.
• When you're in front of the camera, for a small budget or a big budget movie, there's no difference.
• 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.