Isabella Rossellini Quotes

A lot of the advertisement is done by saying: first of all, have a complex about who you are.
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Although Dorothy in Blue Velvet was humiliated and hurt by men, basically I could react to how she felt.
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But I don't really see myself as a role model. I'm not a dictator, or someone who wants to be adored!
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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 am much more radical in my beliefs than my products represent me to be.
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I am now at an age when they wanted me to play her mother.
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I didn't want to become an actress because the competition with my mother would have been to much to live up to.
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I like to extend myself as an actress and David really helped me.
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If we are completely honest with ourselves, everyone has a dark side to their personalities.
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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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There is this idea that you have to play heroines or women who succeed.
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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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