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" My perfume, Manifesto, was based on the scent of basil. "
Isabella Rossellini
Scent
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Manifesto
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" It always amazed me that people believed I was this beautiful object. "
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" 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. "
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" Many years in New York has made me urban, and I won't eat my chicken because I met him personally! "
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" 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. "
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" These same people seem to forget that mother also took a lot of chances with the type of roles she played. "
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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 reason of my life is not to be the most beautiful woman in the world. "
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" The first time I went to Hollywood, I was 25 years old. My background was mostly Italian. "
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" 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. "
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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. "
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" Before Darwin, our world was very religious. People saw altruism as something given by God for us to be good so that we could go to Paradise. "
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" 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. "
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" I wanted to make a film about my dad, a sort of love letter, and explain what I understood of his cinema, which was so utopian. I also wanted to give the sense of his cinema, because they have never been very big box-office, but they were very influential. "
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" It took me a long time to be accepted as an actress, I think, because of the modeling and because of my mother. "
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" I became an actress way into my 30s because I thought that I had to find my own way, and that's why I worked so much in modelling, until I realised that the differences between acting and modelling weren't that great. I always say that modelling is a little bit like being a silent actress. "
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" There is often a great disparity between a director's personal style and the movies he makes. "
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" 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. "
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" 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. "
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" You don't do an experimental film to become rich, so the people who are involved are involved because they enjoy the creative aspect of it. "
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" I graduated from Academy of Fashion and Costume Design in Rome. At first, I thought I was going to be a costume designer for films, and then I ended up working in fashion - not as a designer, but mostly as a model. "
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" I've had a lot of 'aha' moments, but the big 'aha' about growing older is the mental freedom. "
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" Ever since I was a little girl, I have always loved animals and been fascinated with them. "
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" But my mother loved The Elephant Man, and my father gave David Lynch a scholarship to study in Rome. "
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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. "
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" 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. "
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" There is this idea that you have to play heroines or women who succeed. "
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" I never really think about what I have to do to stick to my image. I just follow what I like to do. Sometimes it's glamorous, sometimes it's not. "
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" 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.' "
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" I'd love to meet Darwin. He caused such controversy over whether God created the earth in six days or whether we evolved over time. I'd love to discuss that with him - what a fantastic conversation! "
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