Isabella Rossellini Quotes

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

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

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

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

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

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

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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.

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My Dad is 100 Years Old also touches on a controversy impossible to understand in today's moral climate, when Rossellini and Bergman were banished from Hollywood because they fell in love while she was married to another man. Bergman didn't make a U.S. film for seven years. They were hurt, ... To be ridiculed in the newspapers. My father was such an intellectual and moral person, to be reduced to a sexy playboy, it was humiliating.

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When David left me I became totally brokenhearted.

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

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

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I forgot to say, 'Mama, Ingrid Bergman,' ... The one time that I needed it, they don't get it.

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

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

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If you're sad and you like beer, I'm your lady, ... The Saddest Music in the World.

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

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Taking my clothes off for a film doesn't come naturally to me, but once I had agreed to accept the role I knew I must go through with it.

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