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" I'd like this to become my principal activity: to make films about animals. Of course it's always interesting to model, but it depends who you are working with. I will continue to make acting, too, but I'm old - I'm getting tired of it. "

Isabella Rossellini

Tired

You

Interesting

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Mysterious

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Isabella Rossellini

Home

People

" 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! "

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" I loved modeling. I absolutely loved it. I was so happy to get the cover of 'Vogue' - 23 times. I keep each copy. I made more money as a model than as an actress or as a filmmaker. In monetary terms, beauty pays more than anything. "

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

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

" Once I realised that my job as a model was to emote in front of the camera, I thought, 'Well now, I just have to add words, and I can do films.' But also, my success as a model made me more confident about becoming an actress because, just in case I failed, I thought, 'Well, you know, if I failed as an actress, I can do another job.' "

Isabella Rossellini

Camera

Success

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

Isabella Rossellini

Radical

Products

" I live in the country. I'm a bird-watcher, an oyster-raiser. You know, I'll do anything that - raise dogs for the blind as a volunteer. "

" There is often a great disparity between a director's personal style and the movies he makes. "

" True elegance for me is the manifestation of an independent mind. "

Isabella Rossellini

Elegance

Independent

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Isabella Rossellini

Family

Great

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

" 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. "