Isabella Rossellini

I always loved experimenting in film.

— Isabella Rossellini

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

— Isabella Rossellini

I seldom look at myself to avoid any self-criticism.

— Isabella Rossellini

True elegance is for me the manifestation of an independent mind.

— Isabella Rossellini

My perfume, Manifesto, was based on the scent of basil.

— Isabella Rossellini

When David left me I became totally brokenhearted.

— Isabella Rossellini

I would like to be forgotten. What's so good about being remembered?

— Isabella Rossellini

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

— Isabella Rossellini

I'm always a little worried when people have met me in person because I'm worried they'll be disappointed.

— Isabella Rossellini

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

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

— Isabella Rossellini

Before Darwin, our world was very religious. People saw altruism as something given by God for us to be good so that…

— Isabella Rossellini

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

— Isabella Rossellini

If you look at most beauty advertisements, you would think that makeup is only for beautiful women in their early twenties.

— Isabella Rossellini

There are so many spiders, and their rituals, their mating rituals, their courtship ritual, can be very, very different.

— Isabella Rossellini

Ever since I was a little girl, I have always loved animals and been fascinated with them.

— Isabella Rossellini

I live my everyday life as a person, and I react to my photos from a certain distance. When I look at…

— Isabella Rossellini

I grew up in a family of filmmakers, so I always wanted to make films about animals, especially comical films. Something about…

— Isabella Rossellini

Most people divorce because one in the couple falls in love with someone else: it's a common cause of divorce. I still…

— Isabella Rossellini

If a hamster has too many babies she knows she cannot carry, she not only abandons them, but she eats them. That…

— Isabella Rossellini

I became an actress way into my 30s because I thought that I had to find my own way, and that's why…

— Isabella Rossellini

Adoption has the dimension of connection - not only to your own tribe, but beyond, widening the scope of what constitutes love,…

— Isabella Rossellini

If you see a person who's insecure and covers it up, it can be quite a problem. But the person who is…

— Isabella Rossellini

My father's films are often very slow for the modern audiences, which are used to a lot of editing. It's the audience…

— Isabella Rossellini

Once I realised that my job as a model was to emote in front of the camera, I thought, 'Well now, I…

— Isabella Rossellini

I live in New York, but I am always delighted to come to Europe because I am European and grew up here…

— Isabella Rossellini

It's hard to make a living in any of the arts. When most people think of artists, they think of the stars…

— Isabella Rossellini

Mama wrote a letter to my father saying' I want to work with you' and she ended the letter saying' in Italian…

— Isabella Rossellini

If you go to a therapist, they say, 'Are you sure? How do you feel about your wrinkles?' And I say, 'I…

— Isabella Rossellini

What I think has been wonderful about my life is that it has been diverse, and that I've been able to do…

— Isabella Rossellini

I always encourage women to let their individuality show by not covering up what they perceive as flaws. When I see a…

— Isabella Rossellini

The red carpet has become like a parallel business. The next day, there are TV programmes, and magazines, and it's all, 'Do…

— Isabella Rossellini

It always amazed me that people believed I was this beautiful object.

— Isabella Rossellini

I loved my career as a model, and that evolved into being an actress.

— Isabella Rossellini

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

— Isabella Rossellini

It's a new business for me to be a filmmaker.

— Isabella Rossellini

True elegance for me is the manifestation of an independent mind.

— Isabella Rossellini

The reason of my life is not to be the most beautiful woman in the world.

— Isabella Rossellini

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

— Isabella Rossellini

I believe in a set of values I cannot live by. ...

— Isabella Rossellini