Monica Bellucci Quotes

You learn to control every aspect of your muscles, your face, your toes, your fingernails. And that is how you tell a story, through movement.

I like to use my hands. When I was in theatre in college, that was one of my biggest notes: 'You use your hands too much.'

The computer can't tell you the emotional story. It can give you the exact mathematical design, but what's missing is the eyebrows.

I use my hands a lot while acting.

As the language of the face is universal, so 'tis very comprehensive; no laconism can reach it: 'Tis the short hand of the mind, and crowds a great deal in a little room

You have to learn to express differently. Whenever I do TV or film, I ask if I can see the shot to see, to see if it's full body or a close-up. That helps me understand how to communicate.

One of my favorite actors is Paul Newman. He could tell so much with a single look, whereas some actors would need an entire five page monologue to give off the feeling of what he could say with just a single look.

When you perform, you can convey emotions differently, and your look can reflect each of those emotions.

Good actors, you always know what they're thinking. That's why they're good actors.

There is this miraculous thing I heard Hugh Grant talking about - the thing about screen acting is that you can read people's thoughts. You are trying to register something inside and usually the eyes in cinema are where you will register that.

I love body language.

It's hard to act with just your jaw.

An actor's body should be full of emotions, whether it is happiness or sorrow, pain or joy, enraged or elated.

Breathing is always key in any character. When you have a character with no voice, that makes it even more important.

Emotions often must be portrayed from an inner feeling, of course, but I had a double advantage because I was learning to direct my as-yet expressionless feelings as well as gaining an ability to express emotion by a very conscious manipulation of my muscles.

Body language is essential for an actress, even if you don't use your body in an athletic way. Just to be free, to use it like your voice. A body can be small and have incredible violence. A body talks.

Acting is very physical, even when it doesn't appear to be. It's about the arc of your body's language through a film.

In theater, the primary tool for me was voice. On-screen, it's the eyes.

I just love human emotion and faces.

I realised how important it is to have your body movement, your diction, tonality, dialogue delivery and to be in rhythm because everything is musical.

When I watch an actress say a line, I watch how they deliver the lines with gestures.

She tried to smile sympathetically, but with her face it wasn't quite possible.

When there are no words, let your eyes do the talking.

The language of the face is not taught by the schools; it is intuitive, and to the observant is always legible.

A moment passed, perhaps half a second when their faces said what they felt, and then Emma was smiling, laughing, her arms around his neck.