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
An actor works with their soul and their thought.
-- Monica Bellucci
Envy is human nature.
-- 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
I feel fine and comfortable with myself, but not because I'm beautiful.
-- Monica Bellucci
I have no idea how I'm perceived in America because I don't live the reality of America.
-- 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
I think the lawyers are such incredible actors. Can you imagine the performance they have to do every day?
-- Monica Bellucci
I'm a lucky person because I've been loved a lot. I have a great family.
-- Monica Bellucci
I'm not a movie star. I'm just an actress.
-- 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
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
In acting process, it's very difficult to explain. It's something very intimate, very private.
-- 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
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
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
Now, all the movies are for teenagers. It's very difficult for an actress to find really deep, beautiful characters to play.
-- 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
Time destroys everything.
-- Monica Bellucci
We all need illusions. That's why we love movies.
-- Monica Bellucci
When a relationship doesn't work anymore, it's terrible to stay with someone that you don't love.
-- Monica Bellucci
When I eat with my friends, it is a moment of real pleasure, when I really enjoy my life.
-- Monica Bellucci
When I have to go to Cannes, that is boring to me.
-- 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
When people divorce, it's always such a tragedy. At the same time, if people stay together it can be even worse.
-- 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
When you're in front of the camera, for a small budget or a big budget movie, there's no difference.
-- Monica Bellucci
