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Isabella Rossellini

Isabella Fiorella Elettra Giovanna Rossellini (born 18 June 1952) is an Italian-American actress, filmmaker, author, philanthropist, and model. The daughter of the Swedish actress Ingrid Bergman and of Italian neorealist film director Roberto Rossellini, she is noted for her successful tenure as a Lancôme model, and for her roles in films such as Blue Velvet (1986) and Death Becomes Her (1992). Rossellini also received a Golden Globe Award nomination for her performance in Crime of the Century (1996).

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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

America, Cruel, Fascination, People, Ruining

These same people seem to forget that mother also took a lot of chances with the type of roles she played.

Chances, Mother, People, Roles

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

Beer, Music, Saddest, World

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

Beautiful, Life, Life Is, World

I always loved experimenting in film.

Experimenting, Film, Loved

I didn't want to become an actress because the competition with my mother would have been to much to live up to.

Become, Competition, Live, Mother, Want

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

Father, Loved, Man, Men, Mother

It's hard to make a living in any of the arts. When most people think of artists, they think of the stars and the celebrities. But that's such a tiny minority of the elites who are able to make those millions of dollars. The reality is that it's very hard for the rest to make a living as an artist. So, you really have to persevere and understand that achieving the sort of success where you're making the big money is like winning the lottery.

Art, Millions, Money, Reality, Stars, Thinking

But I don't really see myself as a role model. I'm not a dictator, or someone who wants to be adored!

Dictator, Role, Role Models, Roles, See, Want

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 aging is a problem. . . I'm so surprised that the emphasis on aging here is on physical decay, when aging brings such incredible freedom. Now what I want most is laughs. I don't want to hurt anybody by laughing -- there is no meanness to it. I just want to laugh.

America, Decay, Emphasis, Hurt, Think, Thinking

Although Dorothy in Blue Velvet was humiliated and hurt by men, basically I could react to how she felt.

Blue, Hurt, Men, Velvet

When I took my clothes off in Blue Velvet, I wanted to convey the brutality of sex abuse. I wanted to look like a quartered cow hanging in a butcher shop as well as disturbingly appealing.

Blue, Clothes, Convey, Cow, Look, Sex

I have the most fun writing and directing. And I always choose myself as the lead actor.

Actors, Choose, Directing, Fun, Writing

Women who stay true to themselves are always more interesting and beautiful to me: women like Frida Kahlo, Georgia O'Keeffe and Anna Magnani - women who have style, chic, allure and elegance. They didn't submit to any standard of beauty - they defined it.

Beautiful, Chic, Frida, Georgia, Interesting, Style

I don't think a Hollywood actor is safe from acting in the rain: it all depends on the film.

Acting, Rain, Safe, Think, Thinking

I think my mother became the muse because she had everything when she was in Hollywood: she had the marriage, the success, the money, all the films she wanted to do and yet even her, she had a longing and wanted to work with a film that had meaning, something more profound. And I think that was very touching to father.

Father, Meaning, Mother, Success, Think, Thinking

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 mother became pregnant with my brother Roberto before she could obtain a divorce.

Brother, Letter, Love, Mother

I am the daughter of Mr. Neo-realism: I should gravitate towards narrative simply told, character, the truth. And I do love those movies.

Character, Daughter, Gravitate, Love, Narrative, Simply

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. Commenting on the critics' response to her performance in Blue Velvet

Blue, Comment, Commenting, Girl, Response, Sorry

A lot of the advertisement is done by saying: first of all, have a complex about who you are.

Advertisement, Advertising, Complex, Done, Firsts

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