A lot of the advertisement is done by saying: first of all, have a complex about who you are.
Although Dorothy in Blue Velvet was humiliated and hurt by men, basically I could react to how she felt.
Blue Velvet has scenes of violence, too, in which Dorothy is involved, but to me it was portraying her on an emotional level.
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.
I am much more radical in my beliefs than my products represent me to be.
I am now at an age when they wanted me to play her mother.
I didn't want to become an actress because the competition with my mother would have been to much to live up to.
I like to extend myself as an actress and David really helped me.
If we are completely honest with ourselves, everyone has a dark side to their personalities.
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.
My mother's ability to be a good mother has been questioned throughout her life.
People may think these scenes with Kyle and Dennis Hopper are unnecessarily explicit, but how else could I play the part?
Since playing Dorothy, I was offered a children's film about Little Red Riding Hood in Cannon's Fairy Tale series.
Taking my clothes off for a film doesn't come naturally to me, but once I had agreed to accept the role I knew I must go through with it.
There is this idea that you have to play heroines or women who succeed.
These same people seem to forget that mother also took a lot of chances with the type of roles she played.
When David left me I became totally brokenhearted.
Make em cry. Make em laugh. Make em mad, even mad at you. Stir them up and they'll love it and come back for more. But for heaven's sake, don't try to improve their minds.
If you go to a therapist, they say, 'Are you sure? How do you feel about your wrinkles?' And I say, 'I don't know, because I don't really see them.' I see my hands, but I don't see my face, so it's not a torment. I only see it for five minutes in the morning when I brush my teeth! When you read women's magazines you always read about this drama of getting old, about anti-aging cream and plastic surgery and whatever else. But I think if you're independent, like I have grown to be, it's welcome.
When I was hot as a model, I always knew my entire schedule for the next eight months in advance, every moment was planned and filled. And this lasted for 10 years!
There is no question for me about the Electra complex. You know, exaggerated love of the father - I have it, or some version. I loved my mother, but I was my dad's girl.
There's nothing wrong with modeling, except that it doesn't last. I had the stereotype most people have, that it's stupid, but it wasn't stupid at all. I loved spending a day with Richard Avedon. People who are so artistic, so intelligent -- you are interpreting what they are trying to express. You have taken a trip into this brain, you are a tourist in this fantastically interesting brain. People always say to me that I do such strange films, but it's not that I'm looking for something so different necessarily, it's simply that I meet a person who strikes me as intelligent and interesting and I want to take a trip into their brain.
I like to see a film where I don't need to look at the titles to know who did it, where one image is enough to say this is David Lynch, this is Alfred Hitchcock, this is Spike Lee.
In the "Tales from the Crypt" (1989) episode "You, Murderer", she spoofs her mother's Casablanca (1942) image.
Half-sister of Pia Lindström.
Born at 6:07pm-CET.
Twin sister of Isotta Rossellini, who is an adjunct professor of Italian Renaissance literature at New York University (as of 2006). Sister of Renzo Rossellini.
Dated Gary Oldman (1994)
Chosen by People magazine as one of the 50 Most Beautiful People in the world [1990]
Chosen by Empire magazine as one of the 100 Sexiest Stars in film history (#84). [1995]
Maintains a home in the village of Bellport, New York.
Was scheduled to appear in the David Lean-directed "Nostromo" in 1991, before Lean died, and the production came to a halt.
She suffered from scoliosis (progressive curvature of the spine) and underwent surgery to correct it. She was in a body cast for a year.
Virtually identical to her mother, Ingrid Bergman, but surprisingly was never given the opportunity to portray her mother in a biographical film. The closest she came was with an eerily accurate spoof of Ilsa Lund in an episode of "Tales from the Crypt" (1989).
Has a daughter, Elettra (b. 1983), and an adopted son called Roberto (b. 1993) named after her father.
Published an autobiography called "Some of me".
Measurements: 35 1/2-29-36 (1994 measures), (Source: Celebrity Sleuth magazine).
Fluent in Italian, French and English.
Former model.
Sister of Renzo Rossellini and Roberto Ingmar Rosselini. Twin sister of Isotta Rossellini.
She is 34 minutes older than twin sister Isotta.
She is of Italian and Swedish descent.
Isabella is daughter of the two legends Roberto Rossellini and Ingrid Bergman.
Was engaged to director David Lynch from 1986 to 1990.
Her favorite Hollywood-film that her mother made is Notorious (1946). Her favorite film of her father, made without her mother, is Prise de pouvoir par Louis XIV, La (1966) (TV) and Francesco, giullare di Dio (1950).
Appeared in photographs for Madonna's coffee table book "Sex".
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