Isabella Rossellini
Isabella Rossellini
Isabella Fiorella Elettra Giovanna Rossellini is an Italian-American actress, filmmaker, author, philanthropist, and model. The daughter of Swedish actress Ingrid Bergman, Rossellini is noted for her successful tenure as a Lancôme model, and for her roles in films such as Blue Velvetand Death Becomes Her. She also received a Golden Globe Award nomination for her performance in Crime of the Century...
NationalityItalian
ProfessionMovie Actress
Date of Birth18 June 1952
CityRome, Italy
CountryItaly
I don't look at 'Vogue' to ask what I'm going to wear. Because it's something on a body too young. I have to look at the social pages to see women my age. To see how Amanda Burden is dressed and say, 'Hmmm. Maybe I should try that.'
It's a new business for me to be a filmmaker.
If you look at most beauty advertisements, you would think that makeup is only for beautiful women in their early twenties.
I'm always a little worried when people have met me in person because I'm worried they'll be disappointed.
There is this idea that you have to play heroines or women who succeed.
There are so many spiders, and their rituals, their mating rituals, their courtship ritual, can be very, very different.
I would like to be forgotten. What's so good about being remembered?
I always loved experimenting in film.
I am much more radical in my beliefs than my products represent me to be.
David Lynch came out of it a genius, and I came out of it a fat girl. I'm 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
But I don't really see myself as a role model. I'm not a dictator, or someone who wants to be adored!
I didn't want to become an actress because the competition with my mother would have been to much to live up to.
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 am the daughter of Mr. Neo-realism: I should gravitate towards narrative simply told, character, the truth. And I do love those movies.