Isabella Rossellini Quotes
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Make em cry. Make em laugh. Make em mad, even mad at you. Stir them up and they'll love it and come back for more. But for heaven's sake, don't try to improve their minds.
~ Isabella Rossellini Quote
Since playing Dorothy, I was offered a children's film about Little Red Riding Hood in Cannon's Fairy Tale series.
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I like to extend myself as an actress and David really helped me.
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These same people seem to forget that mother also took a lot of chances with the type of roles she played.
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Blue Velvet has scenes of violence, too, in which Dorothy is involved, but to me it was portraying her on an emotional level.
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If you're sad and you like beer, I'm your lady, ... The Saddest Music in the World.
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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.
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There is this idea that you have to play heroines or women who succeed.
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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.
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I didn't want to become an actress because the competition with my mother would have been to much to live up to.
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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.
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The web is a double-edged sword. It has a huge potential for distributing content, creating contacts. There are a lot of advantages. The problem is that money is spent on technologies, not on content.
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My mother's ability to be a good mother has been questioned throughout her life.
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I am now at an age when they wanted me to play her mother.
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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.
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David Lynch came out of it a genius, and I came out of it a fat girl. I'm sorry that the only comment I get about the part is the way I look.
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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.
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I forgot to say, 'Mama, Ingrid Bergman,' ... The one time that I needed it, they don't get it.
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But I don't really see myself as a role model. I'm not a dictator, or someone who wants to be adored!
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A lot of the advertisement is done by saying: first of all, have a complex about who you are.
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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.
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Although Dorothy in Blue Velvet was humiliated and hurt by men, basically I could react to how she felt.
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But my mother loved The Elephant Man, and my father gave David Lynch a scholarship to study in Rome.
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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!
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I like her mixture of morbid frankness and girlish playfulness. It's why we get along. It's not yin and yang. It's yin and yin somehow. She has, as I do, an ongoing dialogue and relationship with all the important dead people.
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If we are completely honest with ourselves, everyone has a dark side to their personalities.
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When David left me I became totally brokenhearted.
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