Isabella Rossellini Quotes

If you don't like your wrinkles and you think Botox or surgery is going to fix it, do it and shut up. But don't keep talking about it.

Up until the age of 30 I could eat whatever I wanted - I mean, literally, I never put on a pound; if anything, I was criticised in the media for being too skinny.

I wasn't a woman who stayed tiny like I thought I would. I definitely gave myself the freedom to eat what I wanted.

I'm kind of fat.

After forty a woman has to choose between losing her figure or her face. My advice is to keep your face, and stay sitting down.

It's really irrelevant, but I wouldn't want to be stick thin. It's better to have bit of fat on your face when you get older.

Even in normal life, I'm not the skinniest model.

I guess I don't so much mind being old, as I mind being fat and old.

Skinniness is not your friend when you're over 40. I'd like to gain a good 10 pounds, but I did always have a fat, round face that plagued me when I was young. When I started to make movies, I couldn't look at myself.

Aging in Hollywood sucks. There's always so much pressure to look way younger than you are, and everyone's watching! I'd like to embrace getting older, because it's kind of inevitable. The different, wiser me, to be at peace with how I look and I'm supposed to look - it's a work in progress.

If you see 'Pollock,' I weighed almost 270 pounds.

When I started out in 'Caravan,' I looked plump, but that looks fine when you are young. But as you age, you put on weight, it looks obnoxious, you slow down and carry a paunch.

I'm secretly like 800 pounds and 90 years old.

My family, doctors, and society at large were constantly telling me that I was too heavy, that I needed to exercise more, that I should be smaller.

Big can be beautiful - just not to me. I find you disgusting; freshmen 15 is not a life sentence.

At my age, I don’t need to be a sexy bundle of muscles, thank you very much.

Weight is just not a hot button. In fact, during my life, it probably should have been on my radar screen a bit more. I look back at work photos and am shocked. Was I eating the people I was interviewing?! Good Lord, I was big.

I'm a woman, and every woman wants to be skinnier - unfortunately.

You don't have to be age 20 and size zero to be sexually viable or viable as a woman.

I love the way my weight fluctuates in the newspapers. It was 18 stone and then people look at a bad picture of me and add a few more stone on. I think the highest was 22 stone.

It's definitely part of my job description not to be too fat.

The truth is, I like my body more when it's thinner. I have a range of jeans, and I'm happier in the smaller ones. But I don't have the same drive to get into those jeans. I'm not going to change my day to get there, whereas I used to.

I spent my whole single life trying to be thin just to find someone who'd love me once I got fat.

Nobody else knew what to do with me because big women are old.

Yes, some people say to me you're too skinny, but never a skinny person says that to me, only people who could lose a few pounds say that.