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" There is this idea that you have to play heroines or women who succeed. "
Isabella Rossellini
Idea
You
Women
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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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" There are so many spiders, and their rituals, their mating rituals, their courtship ritual, can be very, very different. "
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" I always encourage women to let their individuality show by not covering up what they perceive as flaws. When I see a woman with the natural wrinkles of time on her face, I do not see the wrinkles at all, but when I see a woman trying to cover them up with too much foundation or concealer, all I see are her wrinkles. "
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" It always amazed me that people believed I was this beautiful object. "
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" I am much more radical in my beliefs than my products represent me to be. "
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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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" True elegance for me is the manifestation of an independent mind. "
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" 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. "
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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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Sometimes
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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. "
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" 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. "
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" I think I was always interested in animals. If a man likes a woman, you know, he might discuss business, but there's a part of his brain that is looking at the girl coming in and checking the girls. I do the same with animals. "
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" Market research shows that older women like seeing older women in ads, and that younger women do, too - because they see them and are not frightened of growing older. "
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" 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. "
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" 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. "
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" When I was young, it was difficult to imagine entering a world where my parents succeeded so much and I could have risked failing. It would have felt much harder. "
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" I always loved experimenting in film. "
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Always
Loved
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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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" 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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" I loved my career as a model, and that evolved into being an actress. "
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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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" Maybe there's some kind of modeling that can be tedious, like catalogue modeling, but there's a kind of modeling, with runways or working with Richard Avedon, that's not very far from acting. Besides the fact that you don't have a partner to react to, the body language is the same. "
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" I am the daughter of Mr. Neo-realism: I should gravitate towards narrative simply told, character, the truth. And I do love those movies. "
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" It's a new business for me to be a filmmaker. "
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" The reason of my life is not to be the most beautiful woman in the world. "
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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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Me
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" When David left me I became totally brokenhearted. "
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" To be an icon is a big job - it's beyond acting. And sometimes it pays, and sometimes it doesn't. "
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" If you see a person who's insecure and covers it up, it can be quite a problem. But the person who is insecure and shows you is quite appealing. They give you just the courage to drop your defenses. "
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