Isabella Rossellini Quotes

For every fresh stage in our lives we need a fresh education, and there is no stage for which so little educational preparation is made as that which follows the reproductive period.

I love the women who are coming back to school and getting their degrees because they're so focused.

It was easy for me to leave acting for school, because I wasn't really in it as an adolescent for fulfilling reasons.

I can't run forever. I decided to go back to school for my degree, because I know now there's more to life than track.

I'm thinking of slowing down on modeling and branching out to other things. I want to pursue some new and old dreams and start making them happen.

I started studying at 26. Before that, I never thought of acting as something that I would ever try.

Continue to study and learn new skills.

The willingness to learn new skills is very high.

If my idea was just to maintain a certain lifestyle, there would be no need to get a Ph.D. But I do care very deeply about the idea side as well.

I like the idea of being so passionate about everything I do and the fact that I might wake up tomorrow and say 'I want to be a chef,' and just pour myself into that.

I dropped off my kids from 10 to 2, went to the library, and just wrote. This is my second career - I'm 41 - and I'm a terrible speller.

Formal education will make you a living; self-education will make you a fortune.

'Tyrannosaur's an arrival for me, but it's also the first step into a new career. I don't want to be moonlighting at this, like I have done with acting. Y'know, I think I've found my career at 37 years old.

I have no real ambition or strategy. If this was all to finish, it's totally fine. There's a lot more to do out there than put on silly frocks and shout for a living. I could always go back to, 'Would you like soup with that?'

In books, as in life, there are no second chances. On second thought: it's the next work, still to be written, that offers the second chance.

Who dares to teach must never cease to learn.

It's never too late to go out and get that feeling back.

I think that if you keep your eyes and your ears open and you are receptive to learning, there are skills you can get from any job at all.

I was about to get a degree in economics when I accepted that I'd be a lousy businessman, and if I didn't give acting a try I'd regret it for the rest of my life.

You have to learn and keep learning.

I spend so much time with the brightest and most talented and well-rounded people. I've had the privilege of having long and very intellectual conversations with people, and sometimes I just sit there and listen. It's like a better version of a class. Even though I'm not sitting at a desk and in school, I'm still learning all the time.

If I had my life to live over, I would do it all again, but this time I would be nastier.

Who's to say I can't find some great work when I'm 55 or 65?

I was 20 years old, working as a roofer and a telemarketer and driving a taxi, just barely getting by. A friend of a friend suggested I try acting. I was like, 'Why? What am I going to do? Community theater?' But I took a class, and the teacher thought that I had potential, so I moved to Vancouver and started auditioning.

Leaving a great organization and a lucrative contract is not easy, but it allows me to take a deep breath and work on things that can make me a better driver and a better person.