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Isabella Rossellini
Italian
Actress
Born:
Jun 18
,
1952
Always
Animals
Me
People
Time
You
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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.
Isabella Rossellini
You
Courage
Problem
Drop
Insecure
See
Give
Covers
Up
Person
Quite
Just
Your
Who
Appealing
Shows
It took me a long time to be accepted as an actress, I think, because of the modeling and because of my mother.
Isabella Rossellini
Time
Me
Mother
Long
Long Time
Think
Took
Because
Accepted
Modeling
Actress
It's a new business for me to be a filmmaker.
Isabella Rossellini
Me
Business
New
New Business
Filmmaker
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
Work
Thought
Girl
National
Teenager
Dream
Would
Would-Be
David
Documentaries
Became
Geographic
Making
Hired
National Geographic
Model
Maybe
Happen
Film
Filmmaker
I loved my career as a model, and that evolved into being an actress.
Isabella Rossellini
Evolved
Model
Being
Loved
Actress
Career
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.
Isabella Rossellini
Animals
Everywhere
Some
More
Like
Tigers
Just
Romantic
Interesting
Less
Elephants
People use mobile phones in this very distracting environment where you probably don't have time to watch a 30-minute film, but you might have time to look at a film for a minute and learn something you didn't expect while you walk on the streets.
Isabella Rossellini
Time
You
Phones
People
Walk
Distracting
Minute
Something
Environment
Look
Learn
Mobile
Mobile Phones
Very
Expect
Where
While
Might
Use
Film
Streets
Watch
I grew up in Italy, and our country is a country of great agriculture and food produce. It wasn't like I was urban and only knew about high-heeled shoes and purses and never knew where my eggs came from.
Isabella Rossellini
Food
Great
Agriculture
Country
Shoes
Our
About
Only
Never
Knew
Like
Came
Italy
Up
Eggs
Where
Grew
Urban
Produce
Many years in New York has made me urban, and I won't eat my chicken because I met him personally!
Isabella Rossellini
Me
Made
Met
Eat
New
Him
Because
Years
Chicken
York
New York
Urban
Personally
Many
Before Darwin, our world was very religious. People saw altruism as something given by God for us to be good so that we could go to Paradise.
Isabella Rossellini
God
Good
People
World
Paradise
Before
Our
Saw
Our World
Religious
Religious People
Darwin
Something
Given
Could
Altruism
Go
Very
Us
If a hamster has too many babies she knows she cannot carry, she not only abandons them, but she eats them. That means she doesn't have to go out and hunt for food for herself.
Isabella Rossellini
Food
Babies
Too
Herself
Abandon
Hunt
Out
Carry
Eats
Only
She
Knows
Go
Cannot
Them
Means
Many
Market research shows that older women like seeing older women in ads, and that younger women do, too - because they see them and are not frightened of growing older.
Isabella Rossellini
Women
Research
Older
Too
Market
See
Seeing
Ads
Like
Because
Frightened
Them
Younger
Shows
Growing
Older Women
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.
Isabella Rossellini
Time
Home
Me
People
Better
Cheese
Every
Sick
Every Time
Bit
Feel
Makes
Always
Soup
Chicken
Pasta
Get
Oil
Want
Lemon
Spaghetti
Zest
Olive
Olive Oil
There are so many spiders, and their rituals, their mating rituals, their courtship ritual, can be very, very different.
Isabella Rossellini
Spiders
Ritual
Rituals
Courtship
Mating
Very
Different
Many
As I grew older, I worked less as an actor and as a model, and I went back to what I had tried to do when I was young but wasn't really available. I'm so glad now to be in my sixties and to be able to go back to school.
Isabella Rossellini
School
Young
Older
Back
Back To School
Tried
Able
Glad
Had
Go
Model
Sixties
Grew
Available
Worked
Really
Less
Now
Actor
My perfume, Manifesto, was based on the scent of basil.
Isabella Rossellini
Scent
Perfume
Manifesto
Based
There is often a great disparity between a director's personal style and the movies he makes.
Isabella Rossellini
Great
Director
Style
He
Between
Makes
Personal
Often
Personal Style
Movies
Disparity
The first time I went to Hollywood, I was 25 years old. My background was mostly Italian.
Isabella Rossellini
Time
Old
First
Background
Mostly
First Time
Italian
Years
Hollywood
These same people seem to forget that mother also took a lot of chances with the type of roles she played.
Isabella Rossellini
People
Mother
Took
Type
Seem
Also
She
Lot
Forget
Roles
Same
Played
Chances
I am now at an age when they wanted me to play her mother.
Isabella Rossellini
Me
Age
Mother
Am
Wanted
Now
Play
Her
I didn't want to become an actress because the competition with my mother would have been to much to live up to.
Isabella Rossellini
Competition
Mother
Become
Live
Would
Because
Been
Up
Want
Much
Actress
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.
Isabella Rossellini
Me
People
Back
Ruining
Once
Paranoid
About
Seems
Morbid
Cruel
Part
Dead
Answer
America
Any
Want
Cannot
Which
Reputations
Fascination
But I don't really see myself as a role model. I'm not a dictator, or someone who wants to be adored!
Isabella Rossellini
Myself
See
Someone
Adored
Dictator
Model
Role
Role Model
Wants
Really
Who
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