Quotes by Isabella Rossellini

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