Isabella Rossellini Quotes

"If you go to a therapist, they say, `Are you sure? How do you feel about your wrinkles?` And I say, `I don`t know, because I don`t really see them.` I see my hands, but I don`t see my face, so it`s not a torment. I only see it for five minutes in the morning when I brush my teeth! When you read women`s magazines you always read about this drama of getting old, about anti-aging cream and plastic surgery and whatever else. But I think if you`re independent, like I have grown to be, it`s welcome."

"When I was hot as a model, I always knew my entire schedule for the next eight months in advance, every moment was planned and filled. And this lasted for 10 years!"

"There is no question for me about the Electra complex. You know, exaggerated love of the father - I have it, or some version. I loved my mother, but I was my dad`s girl."

"There`s nothing wrong with modeling, except that it doesn`t last. I had the stereotype most people have, that it`s stupid, but it wasn`t stupid at all. I loved spending a day with Richard Avedon. People who are so artistic, so intelligent -- you are interpreting what they are trying to express. You have taken a trip into this brain, you are a tourist in this fantastically interesting brain. People always say to me that I do such strange films, but it`s not that I`m looking for something so different necessarily, it`s simply that I meet a person who strikes me as intelligent and interesting and I want to take a trip into their brain."

"I like to see a film where I don`t need to look at the titles to know who did it, where one image is enough to say this is David Lynch, this is Alfred Hitchcock, this is Spike Lee."

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

I didn`t want to become an actress because the competition with my mother would have been to much to live up to.

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

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

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

When David left me I became totally brokenhearted.