Top 40 Monica Bellucci Quotes (2025 Update)

1. “I don’t feel the need to prove myself to others, but to prove myself to myself.”

— Monica Bellucci

2. “Do not hate the people who are jealous because they recognize that you are the best.”

— Monica Bellucci

3. “After love, the man sleeps, while the woman reflects.”

— Monica Bellucci

4. “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

5. “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.”

— Monica Bellucci

6. “We all need illusions. That’s why we love movies.”

— Monica Bellucci

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

— Monica Bellucci

8. “Love does not go away, it changes.”

— Monica Bellucci

9. “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.”

— Monica Bellucci

10. “Envy is human nature.”

— Monica Bellucci

11. “If You want a man to notice you, just wear red lipstick.”

— Monica Bellucci

12. “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.”

— Monica Bellucci

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

— Monica Bellucci

14. “An actor works with their soul and their thought.”

— Monica Bellucci

15. “Time destroys everything.”

— Monica Bellucci

16. “Instead of going to the gym, I dress in black – a lot more practical and much more fun.”

— Monica Bellucci

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

— Monica Bellucci

18. “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

19. “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

20. “I’m not a movie star. I’m just an actress.”

— Monica Bellucci

21. “I’m a lucky person because I’ve been loved a lot. I have a great family.”

— Monica Bellucci

22. “Beauty becomes alive and interesting when it’s habited.”

— Monica Bellucci

23. “I come from a Catholic religion, but I’m not Catholic.”

— Monica Bellucci

24. “I have always loved lipstick. For women, that love comes from our mother and grandmothers. It’s so natural for a woman to open up her mirror and apply lipstick.”

— Monica Bellucci

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

— Monica Bellucci

26. “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

27. “I feel fine and comfortable with myself, but not because I’m beautiful.”

— Monica Bellucci

28. “On her daughter Deva: I didn’t have familiarity with children. I’m learning day after day, with her. And what impress me the most is that she, Deva, is an individual person. But in miniature, she seems to be a special effect.”

— Monica Bellucci

29. “I have no idea how I’m perceived in America because I don’t live the reality of America.”

— Monica Bellucci

30. “In acting process, it’s very difficult to explain. It’s something very intimate, very private.”

— Monica Bellucci

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

— Monica Bellucci

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32. “I live in Paris but I feel I am a daughter of Europe.”

— Monica Bellucci

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

— Monica Bellucci

34. “Personally, I find it romantic not to be with someone all the time; you don’t get used to someone or take them for granted.”

— Monica Bellucci

35. “People are very passionate in Italy. If you like something, you like something. If you hate something, you hate something. When you hate something, you are screaming.”

— Monica Bellucci

36. “In Italy, the concept of the family is very important.”

— Monica Bellucci

37. “My career, at the moment, is very exciting, but love comes first because it balances me.”

— Monica Bellucci

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38. “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

39. “Being an actress is the sublimation of feminity.”

— Monica Bellucci

40. “When you’re in front of the camera, for a small budget or a big budget movie, there’s no difference.”

— Monica Bellucci