Monica Bellucci Quotes

My biggest fear is looking weak, girly, and pathetic.

Humble souls are fearful of their own strength.

There's nothing like getting yourself into character and seeing a different person. It really wears on your vanity.

I wish I was harder; I wish I didn't care so much about being the nice girl all the time because a lot of the time people can take kindness for weakness, so I wish I had a little bit more 'oomph' in me.

Vulnerability is not weakness. And that myth is profoundly dangerous.

I love playing characters that are strong, when there's physicality involved.

I'm always a little passive and can come across as being pathetic.

I used to consider myself weak.

I love playing strong power-oriented roles.

I felt more comfortable playing other people than being myself, when I was a kid. And then, the tables turned. Through my performances, I've become more comfortable with who I am, and then I just bring more of myself into the people that I play.

A lot of women feel ashamed to be weak.

There was a time when I just felt like a superwoman. I was like, 'I got Jesus! I ain't afraid!' But, the truth is, I want to do things right, and sometimes I am afraid that I'm not good enough or that I'm not going to handle something right.

Instead of focusing on my looks I focus on the character that I am playing.

Weaklings must lie.

What's interesting is to be sexy but not know it. You'll be in a restaurant, and some girls will walk in and you can tell that they really want to be sexy. It's written on their faces because that's all they want to show. There's a fear that one might not look further.

When I was doing theater, I was very successful at believing that I was great, God's gift to the theater.

I was an average kid who had his wimpy moments.

I think we women underrate ourselves when it comes to our courage and strength.

I play characters that are pretty; I play characters that are sort of intimidating and confident, but that doesn't necessarily mean that I'm that.

You know, I like to think that I'm a really strong, tough person, but I'm not. I'm a very, very needy person. I'm very insecure. I'm very impressionable.

I've played so many jobs where I'm fearless, but it's far from me. I wish I were like that in real life.

I think that everyone has something about themselves that they feel is their weakness... their 'disability.' And I'm certain we all have one, because I think of a disability as being anything which undermines our belief and confidence in our own abilities.

I think what weakens people most is fear of wasting their strength.

The one thing I learned the most about acting is it takes a tremendous amount of courage to go there and stand still. It takes courage and guts to step out of your mind frame and depict something.

We feel a lot of pressure about looking silly or appearing weak, whatever that means, or being a failure. You have to keep in your head: what's the worst that can happen?