Monica Bellucci Quotes
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There are films you see that only reach your eyes. Then there are films that you can watch... that reach down to your throat, or reach your heart. 'In the Mood for Love,' though, reached all the way to my belly.
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The atomic bomb made the prospect of future war unendurable. It has led us up those last few steps to the mountain pass; and beyond there is a different country.
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'Radioactive' is the fall out of my life's inspirations, a testament to my ability to survive it all and to tell the story.
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I've been embracing gray hair since... high school, and I don't think that anything's changed since then.
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Our decision to close on Sunday was our way of honoring God and of directing our attention to things that mattered more than our business.
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I was angry but not at God. I feel that you are closer to God when you are messed up. Definitely. That's when you most need God, and God cannot control what man does.
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Hitchcock makes it very clear to us. There's an objective and a subjective camera, like there's a third- and a first-person narrator in literature.
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I had had a continuing smoldering fury about the treatment of Jews in Germany.
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I'm producing more, but I think to direct, one has to have a burning desire, and that's not me. I'd rather do something else.
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I think if you don't really like a girl, you shouldn't horse around with her at all, and if you do like her, then you're supposed to like her face, and if you like her face, you ought to be careful about doing crumby stuff to it, like squirting water all over it. It's really too bad that so much crumby stuff is a lot of fun sometimes.
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The idea of dependence is an explanation, whereas self-sufficiency is an unprecedented, nonanalogous concept in terms of what we know about life within nature. Is not self-sufficiency itself insufficient to explain self-sufficiency?
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Successful people are always looking for opportunities to help others. Unsuccessful people are always asking, 'What's in it for me?'
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Prayer is good: but when used as a substitute for obedience, it is naught but a blatant hypocrisy, a despicable Pharisaism.
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My father was a successful real estate developer, and he was a very tough man but a good man. My father would always praise me. He always thought I was the smartest person.
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The challenge that I set for myself was to see whether or not plot and structure could coexist, and why it was that we had to always privilege one above the other.
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Children need to be exploring their physical world. They need to be learning the fundamental laws of physics by manipulating objects.
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I think my background, coming from Iran, which is a great country but is going through its share of troubles, really allows me to appreciate what we have here.
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My mother always carries around these postcard pictures of me.
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I realized that a lot of the things I had been telling myself about not being good enough just weren't true, and 'Queen of Denmark' gave me the chance to prove to myself that I could do something real.
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Sometimes I don't know whether a movie has been shot on film or in digital when I watch it in the theatres.
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The movie business is very much like that: people in authority making purely emotional decisions instead of interesting rational ones.
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I don't feel comfortable doing movies. It's not what I trained to do. I trained to be a theater actress. You put me on a stage in front of 2,000 people, I know what to do.
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I'm not a movie star. I'm just an actress.
