I like to extend myself as an actress and David really helped me. — Isabella Rossellini Copy Share Image
True elegance for me is the manifestation of an independent mind. — Isabella Rossellini Copy Share Image
It always amazed me that people believed I was this beautiful object. — Isabella Rossellini Copy Share Image
It took me a long time to be accepted as an actress, I think, because of the modeling and because of my… — Isabella Rossellini Copy Share Image
Many years in New York has made me urban, and I won't eat my chicken because I met him personally! — Isabella Rossellini Copy Share Image
I live my everyday life as a person, and I react to my photos from a certain distance. When I look at… — Isabella Rossellini Copy Share Image
I'm always a little worried when people have met me in person because I'm worried they'll be disappointed. — Isabella Rossellini Copy Share Image
I started modeling at 28. I'm 5-feet-7 1/2 , and I never went on a diet. I followed what my doctor told… — Isabella Rossellini Copy Share Image
Once I realised that my job as a model was to emote in front of the camera, I thought, 'Well now, I… — Isabella Rossellini Copy Share Image
In interviews, the first question I get in America is always: 'What do you do to stay young?' I do nothing. I… — Isabella Rossellini Copy Share Image
I grew up in a family of filmmakers, so I always wanted to make films about animals, especially comical films. Something about… — Isabella Rossellini Copy Share Image
I didn't think I was going to be an actress. Everybody in my family was in films, and they succeeded so much,… — Isabella Rossellini Copy Share Image
When I grew up in Italy in the 1950s, it was still very agricultural. Food was very important; produce was very important.… — Isabella Rossellini Copy Share Image
I always have parmigiano-reggiano, olive oil and pasta at home. When people get sick, they want chicken soup; I want spaghetti with… — Isabella Rossellini Copy Share Image
There are consequences with age, so you have to evolve. I've loved becoming a filmmaker. But I would love to continue modeling,… — Isabella Rossellini Copy Share Image
I would love to be a field biologist. I would love to do what Jane Goodall did, just totally immerse myself in… — Isabella Rossellini Copy Share Image
Maybe there's some kind of modeling that can be tedious, like catalogue modeling, but there's a kind of modeling, with runways or working with… — Isabella Rossellini Copy Share Image
There are so many spiders, and their rituals, their mating rituals, their courtship ritual, can be very, very different. — Isabella Rossellini Copy Share Image
I grew up in Italy, and our country is a country of great agriculture and food produce. It wasn't like I was urban and… — Isabella Rossellini Copy Share Image
You don't do an experimental film to become rich, so the people who are involved are involved because they enjoy the creative aspect of… — Isabella Rossellini Copy Share Image
One of the great issues in biology is the origin of altruism - of why you would do something for someone else that could… — Isabella Rossellini Copy Share Image
In interviews, the first question I get in America is always: 'What do you do to stay young?' I do nothing. I don't think… — Isabella Rossellini Copy Share Image
It's nice to go and be a guest on a television sitcom. It pays well; it's easy because generally it's a supporting role, so… — Isabella Rossellini Copy Share Image
It took me a long time to be accepted as an actress, I think, because of the modeling and because of my mother. — Isabella Rossellini Copy Share Image
Although Dorothy in Blue Velvet was humiliated and hurt by men, basically I could react to how she felt. — Isabella Rossellini Copy Share Image
My films are comical films. They are made to laugh at. They are comical - and scientifically correct. — Isabella Rossellini Copy Share Image
