Monica Bellucci
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Biography
Monica Anna Maria Bellucci is an Italian actress who began her career as a fashion model before working in Italian, American, British, and French films. She has filmography in a range of genres and languages, and her accolades include the David di Donatello, Globo d'oro, Nastro d'Argento and nominations at Saturn Awards and César Awards.
"It's important for me to find different things and prove I can do them. … Someone told me that inside all actors are many sleeping princesses, and each time we do a role, one of those princesses wakes up. Inside us there is everything. We just have to look for it."
"If it weren't for Sicily, cinema wouldn't exist. All the great stories were born here."
"I'm careful about what I eat when I have work assignments, but I don't get carried away by diets. I've always been a curvy woman, never truly thin: it's my nature, and I want to age gracefully."
"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 a couple, sometimes, one or both people have to give up their personal life, dreams and ambitions for the good of the family."
"When I eat with my friends, it is a moment of real pleasure, when I really enjoy my life."
"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."
"When a relationship doesn't work anymore, it's terrible to stay with someone that you don't love."
"I don't stress myself about my looks. I love to laugh. I like being able to lead an interesting life."
"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."
"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'm a lucky person because I've been loved a lot. I have a great family."
"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."
"When people divorce, it's always such a tragedy. At the same time, if people stay together it can be even worse."
"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."
"I've had old people in my life that I really loved - especially women - so I'm not scared about getting old. It's what's inside that makes us beautiful on the outside."
"We all need illusions. That's why we love movies."
"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."
"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."
"As a woman I am so curious about prostitutes because of the idea that they know men better than you. Also, it's such a strange way to live. But at the same time there are prostitutes who just want to be prostitutes, and this is this woman, nobody pushed her to do it. She's a prostitute because she wants to be a prostitute. It's her philosophy of life."
"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."
"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."
"I come from a Catholic religion, but I'm not Catholic."
"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!"