- Monica was ranked #5 in Femme Fatale's 50 Sexiest Women in 2003.
- Monica likes to wear black clothes most of the time they are made of silk. She also likes to wear white gold.
- Monica's personal activities include reading romance books, watching operas (especially Italian ones) and taking her child to the park.
- Monica has taken part in Italian and French movies.
- Monica is the voice of Kaileena in the (video game) Prince of Persia
- Monica has done several nude scenes in her films, most notably in Malèna, Bram Stoker's Dracula, and Irréversible.
- Monica was featured in Maxim Magazine in 2003.
- Monica posed nude for the Italian Vanity Fair Magazine in protest against Italian laws that allow only married couples to use in-vitro fertilization.
- Monica did commercials for the Italian TV before she became famous.
- Monica likes Italian traditional food.
- Once, on an Italian talk show, Monica said that she is forgetting the Italian language since she lives in France and speaks constantly in French.
- When she was a young, Monica wanted to become a doctor.
- Monica had a modeling contract with Giorgio Armani and Prada.
- Monica collects ancient Japanese dolls.
- Monica starred in the movie Tears of the sun along with Bruce Willis.
- Monica appears in both The Matrix Reloaded and The Matrix Revolutions. She plays Persephone.
- Monica is the daughter-in-law of Jean-Pierre Cassel.
- Monica was ranked as #89 in FHM's "100 Sexiest Women in the World 2005" special supplement. (2005)
- Monica ranked #1 in Askmen's "Most Desirable Woman" (2002).
- Monica ranked #9 in Maxim's "100 Sexiest Women" (2002).
- Monica ranked #6 in Maxim's "50 Sexiest Women" (1999).
- Monica is 5'10½" 1.78 m tall.
- Monica has said in an interview that Sophia Loren and Claudia Cardinale have inspired her acting career.
- About Monica's last name: Bellucci is a typical surname from center Italy, it comes from the Latin word "Bellutus", and has the same root as surnames like Belluto, Belluti, Belluzzo, Belluccio, or the aristocratic surname of Belluzzi.
- Monica doesn't always live with her husband Vincent Cassel. For avoiding routine, the two live in separate apartments; she lives most of the time in London and he lives in Paris.
- Monica owns an apartement in London.
- Monica was elected the most beautiful woman in the world by French viewers on a TV show "La Plus belle femme du monde" on November 8, 2004.
- Monica was engaged to actor Nicola Farron from 1989 to 1995.
- Monica's daughter, Deva Cassel, was born on September 12, 2004 in Rome, Italy.
- Monica studied jurisprudence for a short time.
- Monica wears a size 10 shoe.
- Monica was originally cast as Mina Harker in The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen (2003) but had to drop out due to a scheduling conflict. The part then went to Peta Wilson.
- Monica made a nude calendar for the Italian magazine Max in 1998 and another one for the Italian magazine GQ in 2000.
- Monica's measurements are 35C-24-35.
- Monica fluently speaks French, English, and Italian and has acted in each of these languages, as well as Aramaic in The Passion of the Christ.
- Monica appeared in a black & white TV commercial for Dolce & Gabbana. The director was Giuseppe Tornatore, who also directed her in the movie Malèna (2000).
- Monica is married to Vincent Cassel since 1999 and they have one child.
- Monica was elected Most beautiful woman in the world by French people, as a result of a survey called "The 50 most Beautiful Women in the World" on the first channel of french television.
- Monica Bellucci: In Europe, we have so many actresses like Charlotte Rampling and Catherine Denueve and Sophia Loren still playing sexy characters that are their own age. Here, it is so strange. After a while, even young and beautiful actresses don’t work anymore.
- Monica Bellucci: All my choices are a bit strange. In Malena, I have strong scenes. In Tears of the Sun I'm dirty and full of mud all over and I have tears all the time.
- Monica Bellucci: We all need illusions. That's why we love movies.
- Monica Bellucci: Men love what they can't have. When they tell me, "I could cut my veins for you" I just want to laugh. Because a woman wants to be loved. It's great when someone knows you very well. But you have to be able to live in reality as well, you know.
- Monica Bellucci: I don't want to be glamorous. I like to take risks.
- Monica Bellucci: I have nothing against nudity. I use my body like a dress.
- Monica Bellucci: Modelling was something I did when I was young. It was fine, but if I was just a model now I would kill myself.
- Monica Bellucci: I believe that time destroys everything. You can take one beautiful apple, red. After a while, it becomes shrivelled and full of worms.
- Monica Bellucci: Acting is not words. Holly Hunter didn't speak in The Piano (1993) and she won an Oscar.
- Monica Bellucci: Beauty becomes alive and interesting when it's habited.
- Monica Bellucci: (Talking about her daughter Deva) I didn't have familiarity with children. I'm learning day after day, with her. And what impress me the most is that she, Deva, is an individual person. But in miniature, she seems to be a special effect.
- Monica Bellucci: It is a handicap if you're stupid, but not if you are intelligent and know how to use your beauty.
- Monica Bellucci: I'm not scared by nudity, because for me, nothing is more beautiful than a body. You can have such an amazing emotion from a body. In Irréversible (2002), I treated my body like it was an object and it's great when you can have this kind of relation with your body, it's a part of your job, an object you can work with. When you can have this kind of freedom it's the moment where you can give your best as an actress.
- Monica Bellucci: I feel fine and comfortable with myself, but not because I'm beautiful. I know many beautiful people and their lives are just so terrible. They feel so uncomfortable with themselves. Being comfortable is not about what you look like, but how you feel. I'm a lucky person because I've been loved a lot. I have a great family.
- Monica Bellucci: When I eat with my friends, it is a moment of real pleasure, when I really enjoy my life.
- Monica Bellucci: After love, the man sleeps, while the woman reflects.
- Monica Bellucci: I live in Paris but I feel I am a daughter of Europe.
- Monica Bellucci: When I'll be old, I'd rather watch my children than my films.
- Monica Bellucci: My career, at the moment, is very exciting, but love comes first because it balances me.
- Monica Bellucci: I listen to "young" music, the one from my age. I adore soul, rap and funky.
- Monica Bellucci: I come from a Catholic religion, but I'm not Catholic.
- Monica Bellucci: (about reality TV) I think this is something that touches every country - America, Italy, France, England, all over. You will see all these people, they don't know how to sing, they don't know how to dance, and still they become famous. You know, just celebrities. And I think this is a very dangerous process.
- Monica Bellucci: This is what I like about America, because you have very big budget movie, and also independent movies, so you have many different choices. But I know that I'm European... Being European, it is not easy to find the right project, because you may look different, you sound different, and you have to find the right character.
- Monica Bellucci: Being an actress is the sublimation of feminity.
- Monica Bellucci: As a woman I am so curious about prostitutes because of the idea that they know men better than you. Also, it's such a strange way to live. But at the same time there are prostitutes who just want to be prostitutes, and this is this woman, nobody pushed her to do it. She's a prostitute because she wants to be a prostitute. It's her philosophy of life.
- Monica Bellucci: The human intelligence has progressed at the technological level; not a the level of feelings.
- Monica Bellucci: As a European, I need to stay in Europe and I make Italian movies, French movies. Then to come to America is something interesting for me.
- Monica Bellucci: My body is so important to me... my face, my arms, my legs, my hands, my eyes, everything. I use everything I have.
