Top 126 Quotes & Sayings by 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.

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.

I do acupuncture. Because it really helps. It is the opposite of Botox. Botox blocks, and acupuncture moves.

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.

Envy is human nature.

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.

It doesn't surprise me that men in their twenties and thirties are often looking for a much older woman. What is the problem with a man of 30 being with a woman of 50? It is a matter of energy and the soul, not a matter of age of the body.

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.

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.

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.

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.

A woman has so many facets, and when you create an image, you have to play with all the different moments of your femininity, not just one thing, because everybody can get bored.

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.

In a couple, sometimes, one or both people have to give up their personal life, dreams and ambitions for the good of the family.

An actor works with their soul and their thought.

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

I went to a modeling agency and said I wanted to be a model. I worked, worked, worked so much while I was studying.

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.

Time destroys everything.

If a man sees a woman with red lipstick, he admires her, but often he won't feel like kissing her.

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!

When people divorce, it's always such a tragedy. At the same time, if people stay together it can be even worse.

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

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.

What's natural is beautiful, and when you're not you anymore, you become a caricature.

Just a touch of eyeliner and red lips is glamorous.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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.

Everybody does what she needs. And if you want plastic surgery, and then you feel better, why not? There is no law. I've nothing against using something to help your beauty - but do it in a good way, with intelligence.

I wouldn't want to be 20 again for anything.

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.

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

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!

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.

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.

In acting process, it's very difficult to explain. It's something very intimate, very private.

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.

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.

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

I come from a Catholic religion, but I'm not Catholic.

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.

I love jewelry - gold and diamonds. I'm a woman.

I don't work all the time. That's why I waited to have children until I was ready for that. I try to organise my time according to them because they need me. I don't want to put my work first anymore because it's not as important as my children.

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

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.

I have no idea how I'm perceived in America because I don't live the reality of America.

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.'

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

My body is so important to me... my face, my arms, my legs, my hands, my eyes, everything. I use everything I have.

I think the lawyers are such incredible actors. Can you imagine the performance they have to do every day?

When I'm relaxed, jeans and a shirt are my uniform.

We should not be worried about age when it comes to love and attraction.

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.

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

I'm not a movie star. I'm just an actress.