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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. "

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" The problem with middle age, at least when it comes to modeling, is you seldom see a model who is past 27, 28. If they use anyone older, then it becomes automatically a 'personality' story. "

Isabella Rossellini

Problem

Age

Past

" I grew up in Italy, and our country is a country of great agriculture and food produce. It wasn't like I was urban and only knew about high-heeled shoes and purses and never knew where my eggs came from. "

" 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. "

" I would love to be a field biologist. I would love to do what Jane Goodall did, just totally immerse myself in the life of one specific species for years and study every aspect of its behavior until little by little, all of these patterns become clear. That would be great, but I don't know if I have it left in me. "

Isabella Rossellini

Know

Love

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

" It took me a long time to be accepted as an actress, I think, because of the modeling and because of my mother. "

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

" When I was a teenager, I thought maybe I'll be a filmmaker, making film documentaries. My dream when I was a girl was I would be hired by 'National Geographic' or work with David Attenborough, but it didn't happen. I became a model. "

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

Isabella Rossellini

Actress

Really

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

" It's a new business for me to be a filmmaker. "

Isabella Rossellini

Business

Filmmaker

" 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

Oil

" When David left me I became totally brokenhearted. "

" 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.' "

" It always amazed me that people believed I was this beautiful object. "

Isabella Rossellini

People

Always

" I always dreamed when I was a little girl interested in animals that I would go live in Africa. Then I found out that you can look in your backyard, and you can do your own safari. "

" Every time you work, it's a new film, and generally when you work with auteurs, people that write and direct their films, there's always an originality. "

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

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

" If a hamster has too many babies she knows she cannot carry, she not only abandons them, but she eats them. That means she doesn't have to go out and hunt for food for herself. "

" 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

People

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

" There are so many spiders, and their rituals, their mating rituals, their courtship ritual, can be very, very different. "

" Most people divorce because one in the couple falls in love with someone else: it's a common cause of divorce. I still think that it's tinted - this is my opinion - with a veil of racism and American puritanism. "

" 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. "

" I grew up in a family of filmmakers, so I always wanted to make films about animals, especially comical films. Something about animals amuses me. And they have a great mystery. It's the same mystique some people might feel looking at the stars or the ocean. "

Isabella Rossellini

Family

Great

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

" I'm always a little worried when people have met me in person because I'm worried they'll be disappointed. "

Isabella Rossellini

Disappointed

People

" The red carpet has become like a parallel business. The next day, there are TV programmes, and magazines, and it's all, 'Do you like the dress or not like the dress?' and 'Did she look fat?' To keep borrowing dresses and jewellery is like a full-time job. And you have to be a fantasy, which you can never be, so you always feel depressed. "

" I always loved experimenting in film. "