I didn't want to become an ...

I didn\'t want to become an actress because the competition with my mother would have been to much to live up to.
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

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I think my mother became the muse because she had everything when she was in Hollywood: she had the marriage, the success, the money, all the films she wanted to do and yet even her, she had a longing and wanted to work with a film that had meaning, something more profound. And I think that was very touching to father.
 Isabella Rossellini
From the time I was a child I wanted to be like my mother. Not necessarily an actress - I never dreamed I'd have the courage. But an active, volatile woman like she was.
 Isabella Rossellini
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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But my mother loved The Elephant Man, and my father gave David Lynch a scholarship to study in Rome.
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Mama wrote a letter to my father saying' I want to work with you' and she ended the letter saying' in Italian I can only say ti amo( I love you)' and of course the press used that to say women are sexual predators, in 1949 they made a first film together,' Stromboli', and they fell in love and my mother became pregnant with my brother Roberto before she could obtain a divorce.
 Isabella Rossellini