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.
An actor works with their soul and their thought.
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.
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.
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.
Now, all the movies are for teenagers. It's very difficult for an actress to find really deep, beautiful characters to play.
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.
Monica has taken part in Italian and French movies.
Monica has done several nude scenes in her films, most notably in Mal?na, Bram Stoker's Dracula, and Irr?versible.
Monica posed nude for the Italian Vanity Fair Magazine in protest against Italian laws that allow only married couples to use in-vitro fertilization.
Monica likes Italian traditional food.
When she was a young, Monica wanted to become a doctor.
Monica collects ancient Japanese dolls.
Monica appears in both The Matrix Reloaded and The Matrix Revolutions. She plays Persephone.
Monica was ranked as #89 in FHM's "100 Sexiest Women in the World 2005" special supplement. (2005)
Monica ranked #9 in Maxim's "100 Sexiest Women" (2002).
Monica is 5'10?" 1.78 m tall.
About Monica's last name: Bellucci is a typical surname from center Italy, it comes from the Latin word "Bellutus", and has the same root as surnames like Belluto, Belluti, Belluzzo, Belluccio, or the aristocratic surname of Belluzzi.
Monica owns an apartement in London.
Monica was engaged to actor Nicola Farron from 1989 to 1995.
Monica studied jurisprudence for a short time.
Monica was originally cast as Mina Harker in The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen (2003) but had to drop out due to a scheduling conflict. The part then went to
Monica's measurements are 35C-24-35.
Monica appeared in a black & white TV commercial for Dolce & Gabbana. The director was Giuseppe Tornatore, who also directed her in the movie Mal?na (2000).
Monica was elected Most beautiful woman in the world by French people, as a result of a survey called "The 50 most Beautiful Women in the World" on the first channel of french television.
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