Italian - Actress | June 18, 1952 -
I started modeling at 28. I'm 5-feet-7 1/2, and I never went on a diet. I followed what my doctor told me: 'It's good to have a little bit of fat. Your weight is fine. Don't go any lighter.'
Isabella Rossellini
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The red carpet has become like a parallel business. The next day, there are TV programmes, and magazines, and it's all, 'Do you like the dress or not like the dress?' and 'Did she look fat?' To keep borrowing dresses and jewellery is like a full-time job. And you have to be a fantasy, which you can never be, so you always feel depressed.
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My perfume, Manifesto, was based on the scent of basil.
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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.
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These same people seem to forget that mother also took a lot of chances with the type of roles she played.
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One of the great issues in biology is the origin of altruism - of why you would do something for someone else that could hurt you - and Darwin posited that it might be rooted in maternal instinct, in sacrificing yourself for your children.
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I've had a lot of 'aha' moments, but the big 'aha' about growing older is the mental freedom.
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There are so many spiders, and their rituals, their mating rituals, their courtship ritual, can be very, very different.
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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.
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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.
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If you look at most beauty advertisements, you would think that makeup is only for beautiful women in their early twenties.
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I always dreamed when I was a little girl interested in animals that I would go live in Africa. Then I found out that you can look in your backyard, and you can do your own safari.
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