Isabella Rossellini Quotes

But I don't really see myself as a role model. I'm not a dictator, or someone who wants to be adored!
Isabella Rossellini

Someone, Wants, Role

A lot of the advertisement is done by saying: first of all, have a complex about who you are.
Isabella Rossellini

Saying, Done, Complex

Although Dorothy in Blue Velvet was humiliated and hurt by men, basically I could react to how she felt.
Isabella Rossellini

But my mother loved The Elephant Man, and my father gave David Lynch a scholarship to study in Rome.
Isabella Rossellini

Mother, Father, Study

I am much more radical in my beliefs than my products represent me to be.
Isabella Rossellini

Beliefs, Radical, Represent

I am now at an age when they wanted me to play her mother.
Isabella Rossellini

Age, Mother, Play

I didn't want to become an actress because the competition with my mother would have been to much to live up to.
Isabella Rossellini

Mother, Live, Become

I like to extend myself as an actress and David really helped me.
Isabella Rossellini

Actress, Helped, David

If we are completely honest with ourselves, everyone has a dark side to their personalities.
Isabella Rossellini

Dark, Honest, Everyone

In America, they are paranoid about ruining the reputations of people once they are dead and cannot answer back. They have this fascination which to me seems cruel and morbid. I do not want any part of it.
Isabella Rossellini

America, Cannot, Dead

There is this idea that you have to play heroines or women who succeed.
Isabella Rossellini

Women, Play, Succeed

These same people seem to forget that mother also took a lot of chances with the type of roles she played.
Isabella Rossellini

Mother, Forget, Same

When David left me I became totally brokenhearted.
Isabella Rossellini

Left, Totally, David

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Biography

Nationality: Italian

Born: June 18, 1952

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