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Isabella Rossellini
Italian
Actress
About the author
If we are completely honest with ourselves, everyone has a dark side to their personalities.
Isabella Rossellini,
Italian
Actress
There is this idea that you have to play heroines or women who succeed.
Isabella Rossellini,
Italian
Actress
#Play
#Idea
#Succeed
#Women
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,
Italian
Actress
#Want
#Mother
#Competition
A lot of the advertisement is done by saying: first of all, have a complex about who you are.
Isabella Rossellini,
Italian
Actress
#First
These same people seem to forget that mother also took a lot of chances with the type of roles she played.
Isabella Rossellini,
Italian
Actress
#People
#Forget
#Mother
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,
Italian
Actress
#Want
#People
#America
I like to extend myself as an actress and David really helped me.
Isabella Rossellini,
Italian
Actress
I am now at an age when they wanted me to play her mother.
Isabella Rossellini,
Italian
Actress
#Now
#Play
#Mother
#Age
Although Dorothy in Blue Velvet was humiliated and hurt by men, basically I could react to how she felt.
Isabella Rossellini,
Italian
Actress
#Hurt
#Men
I am much more radical in my beliefs than my products represent me to be.
Isabella Rossellini,
Italian
Actress
#Beliefs
#Radical
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,
Italian
Actress
But my mother loved The Elephant Man, and my father gave David Lynch a scholarship to study in Rome.
Isabella Rossellini,
Italian
Actress
#Study
#Man
#Mother
#Father
#Rome
When David left me I became totally brokenhearted.
Isabella Rossellini,
Italian
Actress