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" 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
Know
She
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" I always say that in my career as an actress, I've always worked with people like David Lynch or Guy Maddin or Peter Weir who are considered not mainstream directors and that could be because they are like my dad. They are pioneers, and pioneers, by definition, invent something new. "
Isabella Rossellini
Career
People
Always
" I didn't think I was going to be an actress. Everybody in my family was in films, and they succeeded so much, I thought, 'It's better for me to do something else,' and they agreed. "
Isabella Rossellini
Think
Better
Family
" I live in New York, but I am always delighted to come to Europe because I am European and grew up here until I was 20. I am not only Italian, I am partly Swedish. When my parents divorced, I was three years old and went to live in Paris... when I am offered a film in Europe, I come with great enthusiasm! "
Isabella Rossellini
Parents
Live
New York
" I've had a lot of 'aha' moments, but the big 'aha' about growing older is the mental freedom. "
Isabella Rossellini
Moments
Freedom
Older
" I have the most fun writing and directing. And I always choose myself as the lead actor. "
Isabella Rossellini
Choose
Always
Fun
" I've always been interested in animal behavior, and I keep reading about it because it's so surprising all the time - so many things are happening around us that we neglect to look at. Part of the passion I have for biology is based on this wonderment. "
Isabella Rossellini
Time
Passion
Behavior
" But my mother loved The Elephant Man, and my father gave David Lynch a scholarship to study in Rome. "
Isabella Rossellini
Mother
Elephant
Father
" To be an icon is a big job - it's beyond acting. And sometimes it pays, and sometimes it doesn't. "
Isabella Rossellini
Big
Beyond
Job
" 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
People
Want
America
" It's a new business for me to be a filmmaker. "
Isabella Rossellini
Business
Filmmaker
Me
" The first time I went to Hollywood, I was 25 years old. My background was mostly Italian. "
Isabella Rossellini
Years
First Time
Hollywood
" 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. "
Isabella Rossellini
Beauty
Women
Style
" I was always interested in animals, but when I was little, animal behavior was still a new science. It was available to become a veterinarian, it was available to study biology, but not specifically animal behavior. In the '60s, Jane Goodall was the founder of this new science. "
Isabella Rossellini
Animals
Science
Behavior
" When I grew up in Italy in the 1950s, it was still very agricultural. Food was very important; produce was very important. Everyone made their own olive oil. It took me a long time after I moved here to understand that Americans are much further away from their food. "
Isabella Rossellini
Important
Me
Oil
" Animation translates well to a small screen. When you look at Walt Disney or Chuck Jones - you know, Bugs Bunny - there really isn't any difference if you watch on a very big screen or a computer screen. "
Isabella Rossellini
Small
You
Watch
" I live in New York, and the only live animals you see are cockroaches, rats and pigeons, which I admire immensely. When I see an animal that thrives in the garbage, I feel relief; in our urban environment, other animals are dying out. "
Isabella Rossellini
New York
Animal
You
" Mammals are very close to us, but bugs are strange. They're more mysterious and exotic. "
Isabella Rossellini
Us
Strange
Mysterious
" There are consequences with age, so you have to evolve. I've loved becoming a filmmaker. But I would love to continue modeling, and there isn't really any job for me. It's being marginalized - that's the sad part. "
Isabella Rossellini
Sad
Me
Loved
" It always amazed me that people believed I was this beautiful object. "
Isabella Rossellini
Me
People
Always
" 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. What irritates me a little is growing fatter. It irritates me that if I eat what I want to eat, it shows. "
Isabella Rossellini
Problem
You
Think
" True elegance for me is the manifestation of an independent mind. "
Isabella Rossellini
Me
Elegance
Independent
" By the time I was successful with covers of 'Vogue' and 'Harper's Bazaar' and 'Vanity Fair' and the Lancome contract, someone asked how old I was. They almost fainted when I said 33. "
Isabella Rossellini
Said
Time
Successful
" As I grew older, I worked less as an actor and as a model, and I went back to what I had tried to do when I was young but wasn't really available. I'm so glad now to be in my sixties and to be able to go back to school. "
Isabella Rossellini
Now
Young
Actor
" I always have parmigiano-reggiano, olive oil and pasta at home. When people get sick, they want chicken soup; I want spaghetti with parmesan cheese, olive oil and a bit of lemon zest. It makes me feel better every time. "
Isabella Rossellini
Home
Me
People
" I don't look at 'Vogue' to ask what I'm going to wear. Because it's something on a body too young. I have to look at the social pages to see women my age. To see how Amanda Burden is dressed and say, 'Hmmm. Maybe I should try that.' "
Isabella Rossellini
Look
Young
Women
" I am now at an age when they wanted me to play her mother. "
Isabella Rossellini
Now
Age
I Am
" It's nice to go and be a guest on a television sitcom. It pays well; it's easy because generally it's a supporting role, so you go, you do two or three things, you're in touch with people there. They're widely popular, so they're seen by many people. "
Isabella Rossellini
Television
Easy
Nice
" These same people seem to forget that mother also took a lot of chances with the type of roles she played. "
Isabella Rossellini
People
Same
Seem
" I started modeling at 28. I'm 5-feet-7 1/2, and I never went on a diet. I followed what my doctor told me: 'It's good to have a little bit of fat. Your weight is fine. Don't go any lighter.' "
Isabella Rossellini
Me
Modeling
Diet
" I am much more radical in my beliefs than my products represent me to be. "
Isabella Rossellini
More
Radical
Products