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
Mama wrote a letter to my father saying' I want to work with you' and she ended the letter saying' in Italian I can only say ti amo( I love you)' and of course the press used that to say women are sexual predators, in 1949 they made a first film together,' Stromboli', and they fell in love and my… — Isabella Rossellini Copy Share
These same people seem to forget that mother also took a lot of chances with the type of roles she played. — Isabella Rossellini Copy Share Image
But my mother loved The Elephant Man, and my father gave David Lynch a scholarship to study in Rome. — Isabella Rossellini Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
From the time I was a child I wanted to be like my mother. Not necessarily an actress - I never dreamed… — Isabella Rossellini Copy Share Image
I think my mother became the muse because she had everything when she was in Hollywood: she had the marriage, the success,… — 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
