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" 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
Red
Apple
Beautiful
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" 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. "
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Him
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" 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. "
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" When a relationship doesn't work anymore, it's terrible to stay with someone that you don't love. "
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" I like when I have to act and direct; then, when you have to dub, you're by yourself in front of the wall, and I'm always scared that you're not good like when you are in real when you act. "
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" It's complicated coming from a culture where to be a mother is more important than to have a career. "
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" Do you know who I would love to play? Morticia Addams - then I could use all that darkness to be funny. "
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" 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! "
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Power
" Because I'm pretty, everybody thinks I'm stupid. But it is like a mask, and you have to break the mask to show that there is something else behind it. You have to show who you are to make the others come to discover you. "
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Others
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" In so many places in the world, women have been prisoners for so long that they feel they have to scream about their rights. But when you scream, nobody listens to you. Real authority comes when you no longer need to scream - and that's something we women still need to learn. "
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" My body is an object of work. That's why I think to be an actor is one of the most violent jobs. If you're a pianist, you have your piano. If you're a guitarist, you have your guitar. But if you're a dancer, or you're an actor - your instrument is your body. "
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Guitar
Work
You
" 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. "
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Place
You
" I don't work all the time. That's why I waited to have children until I was ready for that. I try to organise my time according to them because they need me. I don't want to put my work first anymore because it's not as important as my children. "
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Me
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" I do acupuncture. Because it really helps. It is the opposite of Botox. Botox blocks, and acupuncture moves. "
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Opposite
Because
Acupuncture
" When I'm relaxed, jeans and a shirt are my uniform. "
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Jeans
Shirt
Relaxed
" I love jewelry - gold and diamonds. I'm a woman. "
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Diamonds
Gold
Jewelry
" We should not be worried about age when it comes to love and attraction. "
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Love
Age
Attraction
" In France, they call the beauty of youth 'the evil beauty.' You don't have it because of you but because you're born with it. The other kind of beauty is your own work, and it takes forever. "
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Work
Youth
Beauty
" I was very shy as a girl. Absurdly shy, even. Maybe because I was an only child. And I think that's why I'm so happy to have two kids now. "
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Shy
Now
Happy
" Just a touch of eyeliner and red lips is glamorous. "
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Just
Red
Touch
" I feel fine and comfortable with myself, but not because I'm beautiful. "
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" I like to be in the spotlight once in a while, and then I like to be in the shadows. It's really regenerating. "
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" 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. "
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" When I have to go to Cannes, that is boring to me. "
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Me
Go
Cannes
" 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. "
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" When you're in front of the camera, for a small budget or a big budget movie, there's no difference. "
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Difference
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You
" 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. "
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" Listen, I had two kids - one when I was 40, one when I was 45. I breastfed for one year, which means I was breastfeeding four years ago. I'm going to move from giving birth to menopause without really realising. "
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Two
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" 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. "
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" I grew up in Perugia, Umbria, in a world outside of fashion, so I didn't learn about it until I was older and moved away. In Milan, the women are really into fashion, and all the big fashion brands are based there, but I don't think they feel pressure to look good all the time. "
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" I'm a European, and I live there. I work in European films, and then once in a while, I make an American movie. "
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