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

#dictator #i #model #myself #really

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

— Isabella Rossellini

#advertisement #complex #done #first #first of all

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

— Isabella Rossellini

#basically #blue #could #dorothy #felt

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

— Isabella Rossellini

#david lynch #elephant #father #gave #loved

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

— Isabella Rossellini

#beliefs #i #i am #me #more

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

— Isabella Rossellini

#am #her #i #i am #me

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

#because #become #been #competition #i

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

— Isabella Rossellini

#david #extend #helped #i #like

If we are completely honest with ourselves, everyone has a dark side to their personalities. ↗

— Isabella Rossellini

#dark #dark side #everyone #honest #ourselves

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

— Isabella Rossellini

#idea #play #succeed #who #women