Quotes by Isabella Rossellini

“David Lynch came out of it a genius, and I came out of it a fat girl. Im sorry that the only comment I get about the part is the way I look. [Commenting on the critics response to her performance in Blue Velvet]”

“I like her mixture of morbid frankness and girlish playfulness. Its why we get along. Its not yin and yang. Its yin and yin somehow. She has, as I do, an ongoing dialogue and relationship with all the important dead people.”

“disappeared or havent been restored or rights havent cleared.”

“If youre sad and you like beer, Im your lady, ... The Saddest Music in the World.”

“I forgot to say, Mama, Ingrid Bergman, ... The one time that I needed it, they dont get it.”

“[My Dad is 100 Years Old also touches on a controversy impossible to understand in todays moral climate, when Rossellini and Bergman were banished from Hollywood because they fell in love while she was married to another man. Bergman didnt make a U.S. film for seven years.] They were hurt, ... To be ridiculed in the newspapers. My father was such an intellectual and moral person, to be reduced to a sexy playboy, it was humiliating.”

“They were hurt. To be ridiculed in the newspapers. My father was such an intellectual and moral person, to be reduced to a sexy playboy, it was humiliating.”

When I grew up, we always had our chickens, and we ate our eggs, and we ate our chickens. The family always had a pig, and we would kill it at Christmas and eat it for three or four months afterwards.

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.

Women who stay true to themselves are always more interesting and beautiful to me: women like Frida Kahlo, Georgia OKeeffe and Anna Magnani - women who have style, chic, allure and elegance. They didnt submit to any standard of beauty - they defined it.

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.

I started modeling at 28. Im 5-feet-7 1/2, and I never went on a diet. I followed what my doctor told me: Its good to have a little bit of fat. Your weight is fine. Dont go any lighter.

If you see a person whos 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.

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.

There are consequences with age, so you have to evolve. Ive loved becoming a filmmaker. But I would love to continue modeling, and there isnt really any job for me. Its being marginalized - thats the sad part.

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.