Quotes from Monica Bellucci

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

Beauty becomes alive and interesting when it's habited.

I'm a European, and I live there. I work in European films, and then once in a while, I make an American movie.

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

In Italy, the concept of the family is very important.

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

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.