Isabella Rossellini Quotes

"There is this idea that you have to play heroines or women who succeed."
- Isabella Rossellini
(Related: Women, Idea, Play, Succeed)

"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
(Related: Mother, Competition, Want)

"A lot of the advertisement is done by saying: first of all, have a complex about who you are."
- Isabella Rossellini
(Related: First)

"These same people seem to forget that mother also took a lot of chances with the type of roles she played."
- Isabella Rossellini
(Related: Mother, People, Forget)

"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."
- Isabella Rossellini
(Related: People, America, Want)

"I like to extend myself as an actress and David really helped me."
- Isabella Rossellini

"I am now at an age when they wanted me to play her mother."
- Isabella Rossellini
(Related: Age, Mother, Now, Play)

"Although Dorothy in Blue Velvet was humiliated and hurt by men, basically I could react to how she felt."
- Isabella Rossellini
(Related: Men, Hurt)

"I am much more radical in my beliefs than my products represent me to be."
- Isabella Rossellini
(Related: Beliefs, Radical)

"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
(Related: Mother, Father, Man, Rome, Study)

"When David left me I became totally brokenhearted."
- Isabella Rossellini