Monica Bellucci Quotes

Assume nothing. Inside every dumb blond there may be a very smart brunette.

People often expect me to be something other than what I am.

I love to prove people wrong. They expect I'll sound a certain way when they see me, then they hear me and they can't believe it. I love that.

I've known attractive airheads, and I've known ugly idiots.

It's almost ingrained in people that, just like you can't be a smart model, you can't be a good-looking cook.

It's funny: people who meet me say, 'I thought you'd be different.' But I'm still the same guy.

Whenever I play something, everybody just thinks that's who I am.

I have this fear of coming across as a Barbie doll who got lucky. Style is a big part of who I am, but it's not who I am. Ya know?

We are all just little dolls of ourselves. Who occasionally pull back the curtains to reveal the real us.

I want to show people there's more to me than they think.

You don't judge a book by a cover. I'm not your typical rap look.

My dad used to say, 'Just because you dress up in a coat and tie, it doesn't influence your intelligence.'

I'm portrayed as this tough broad, but I'm not.

There are people who are blond and blue-eyes who are walking through airports that are terrorists. There are people who look exactly like me who are terrorists.

The plays I choose to work on are about having masks. We all have masks in life, but there is a different inner life going on. The audience has to work hard to see what is going on. I love what is not on display.

If you think I'm a young boy singing these songs, dope. Run with that.

From my situation as an African American person in the U.S., people may look at me and think a certain thing without getting to know me. I'm of Nigerian and Caribbean heritage. I went to Yale. What you see is not what you think you're getting.

I am who I am, you are who you are, and everything else is a perception based on acceptance, deception, smoke, mirrors, and so on. It's what's between us that seems to justify our accidental identities.

One is what one has the nerve to pretend to be.

We are what we pretend to be.

The disappearance of your person is not your disappearance, remember; on the contrary, it is your appearance. As your person disappears, your personality falls away; your individuality, your individual arises. To have a personality is hypocrisy. To be an individual is your birthright.

No one can believe I might have a brain. Because I'm really tall, I'm really blonde, I have big muscles, and kill people for a living. There you go. If anybody's going to be assumed to be stupid, it's me. I don't know what my IQ score is, but I did study for five years at college. And I'm proud of my chemical engineering degree. I haven't done anything with it, but it's a card up your sleeve for later in life. It's nice to have, just in case.

Some people think because I wear makeup that I am gay. But one thing has nothing to do with the other.

In photos, I don't know who the real me is - it's all pretend, just pretend. There's not much of myself in my work. If I'm looking in the mirror and I'm working, I'm looking at my make-up and my hair. It's not the same as looking at myself.

I am here and you will know that I am the best and will hear me. The color of my skin or the kink of my hair or the spread of my mouth has nothing to do with what you are listening to.