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But I don't really see myself as a role model. I'm not a dictator, or someone who wants to be adored!

There are so many spiders, and their rituals, their mating rituals, their courtship ritual, can be very, very different.

I always loved experimenting in film.

To be an icon is a big job - it's beyond acting. And sometimes it pays, and sometimes it doesn't.

I like to extend myself as an actress and David really helped me.

If you look at most beauty advertisements, you would think that makeup is only for beautiful women in their early twenties.

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.

Although Dorothy in Blue Velvet was humiliated and hurt by men, basically I could react to how she felt.

I have the most fun writing and directing. And I always choose myself as the lead actor.

When David left me I became totally brokenhearted.

But my mother loved The Elephant Man, and my father gave David Lynch a scholarship to study in Rome.

There is often a great disparity between a director's personal style and the movies he makes.

It's a new business for me to be a filmmaker.

I was born with a love of animals, the same way I was born with brown hair. When I was a little girl in Rome, I always had pets, which I adored.

I would like to be forgotten. What's so good about being remembered?

I live in the country. I'm a bird-watcher, an oyster-raiser. You know, I'll do anything that - raise dogs for the blind as a volunteer.

These same people seem to forget that mother also took a lot of chances with the type of roles she played.

I've had a lot of 'aha' moments, but the big 'aha' about growing older is the mental freedom.

If you're sad and you like beer, I'm your lady, ... The Saddest Music in the World.

There is this idea that you have to play heroines or women who succeed.

Mammals are very close to us, but bugs are strange. They're more mysterious and exotic.

You don't do an experimental film to become rich, so the people who are involved are involved because they enjoy the creative aspect of it.

I loved my career as a model, and that evolved into being an actress.

I seldom look at myself to avoid any self-criticism.

Ever since I was a little girl, I have always loved animals and been fascinated with them.

Many years in New York has made me urban, and I won't eat my chicken because I met him personally!

If we are completely honest with ourselves, everyone has a dark side to their personalities.

I am the daughter of Mr. Neo-realism: I should gravitate towards narrative simply told, character, the truth. And I do love those movies.

I am now at an age when they wanted me to play her mother.

My films are comical films. They are made to laugh at. They are comical - and scientifically correct.

It always amazed me that people believed I was this beautiful object.

I'm always a little worried when people have met me in person because I'm worried they'll be disappointed.

I never really think about what I have to do to stick to my image. I just follow what I like to do. Sometimes it's glamorous, sometimes it's not.

I am much more radical in my beliefs than my products represent me to be.

My perfume, Manifesto, was based on the scent of basil.

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

It took me a long time to be accepted as an actress, I think, because of the modeling and because of my mother.

True elegance for me is the manifestation of an independent mind.

A lot of the advertisement is done by saying: first of all, have a complex about who you are.

The first time I went to Hollywood, I was 25 years old. My background was mostly Italian.