Isabella Rossellini famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

Adoption has the dimension of connection - not only to your own tribe, but beyond, widening the scope of what constitutes love, ties and family. It is a larger embrace. By adopting, we stretch past our immediate circles and, by reaching out, find an unexpected sense of belonging with others.
-- Isabella Rossellini

#Inspirational #Past #Circles
I believe in a set of values I cannot live by. I set high goals for myself, I seek perfection, dream of exotic faraway places. But ultimately, what I long for isn't far away at all. It's in my own backyard. Imperfection charms me, familiar things move me... a celebration of what we have, instead of what we long for. That for me, is glamor.
-- Isabella Rossellini

#Dream #Moving #Believe
If we are completely honest with ourselves, everyone has a dark side to their personalities.
-- Isabella Rossellini

#Dark #Personality #Sides
I believe in a set of values I cannot live by. ...
-- Isabella Rossellini

#Believe #Live By #Values
True elegance is for me the manifestation of an independent mind.
-- Isabella Rossellini

#Independent #Mind #Elegance
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.
-- Isabella Rossellini

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

#Daughter #Character #Narrative
I always loved experimenting in film.
-- Isabella Rossellini

#Film
I have the most fun writing and directing. And I always choose myself as the lead actor.
-- Isabella Rossellini

#Fun #Writing #Actors
You dont do an experimental film to become rich, so the people who are involved are involved because they enjoy the creative aspect of it.
-- Isabella Rossellini

#People #Creative #Film
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.
-- Isabella Rossellini

#Morning #Drama #Independent
The reason of my life is not to be the most beautiful woman in the world.
-- Isabella Rossellini

#Beautiful #World #Life Is
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

#Mother #Competition #Want
I am much more radical in my beliefs than my products represent me to be.
-- Isabella Rossellini

#Belief #Radical
But my mother loved The Elephant Man, and my father gave David Lynch a scholarship to study in Rome.
-- Isabella Rossellini

#Mother #Father #Men
Although Dorothy in Blue Velvet was humiliated and hurt by men, basically I could react to how she felt.
-- Isabella Rossellini

#Hurt #Men #Blue
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

#America #People #Want
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.
-- Isabella Rossellini

#Sex #Blue #Clothes
I was always fascinated by the infinite, strange and 'scandalous' ways that insects copulate.
-- Isabella Rossellini

#Design #Way #Strange
These same people seem to forget that mother also took a lot of chances with the type of roles she played.
-- Isabella Rossellini

#Mother #People #Roles
A lot of the advertisement is done by saying: first of all, have a complex about who you are.
-- Isabella Rossellini

#Done #Firsts #Advertising
Food is a big part of my culture, so everyone knows how to cook. When I came to America and asked a babysitter to softboil an egg for my son and she didn't know how, I was shocked.
-- Isabella Rossellini

#Son #Eggs #America
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
-- Isabella Rossellini

#Girl #Sorry #Blue
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

#Role Models #Roles #Want
From the time I was a child I wanted to be like my mother. Not necessarily an actress - I never dreamed I'd have the courage. But an active, volatile woman like she was.
-- Isabella Rossellini

#Mother Daughter #Children #Actresses

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