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" 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. "

Isabella Rossellini

Happen

Work

Dream

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Products

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

" 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. "

" One of the great issues in biology is the origin of altruism - of why you would do something for someone else that could hurt you - and Darwin posited that it might be rooted in maternal instinct, in sacrificing yourself for your children. "

" I live my everyday life as a person, and I react to my photos from a certain distance. When I look at a photo, I detach myself and look at it as a product - not as me, Isabella. "

Isabella Rossellini

Live

Myself

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

Isabella Rossellini

Actress

Really

" 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. "

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

" 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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Sad

Loved

" The first time I went to Hollywood, I was 25 years old. My background was mostly Italian. "

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

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

Isabella Rossellini

Business

Filmmaker

" Many years in New York has made me urban, and I won't eat my chicken because I met him personally! "

" That is the great pleasure of working with great directors. You get to look at the world through many different prisms. I guess I love talent, whatever form it takes. "

" 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. "

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

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

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Elegance

Independent

" 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. "

" Animals are everywhere. Some are more romantic, like tigers and elephants and chimpanzees, and some are less romantic, like earthworms, but they are just as interesting. "

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Animals

Interesting

" To be an icon is a big job - it's beyond acting. And sometimes it pays, and sometimes it doesn't. "

" But I don't really see myself as a role model. I'm not a dictator, or someone who wants to be adored! "

" 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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Modeling

Diet

" 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. "

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Home

People

" 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. "