 But I don't really see myself as a role model. I'm not a dictator, or someone who wants to be adored! |
| There is this idea that you have to play heroines or women who succeed. |
| When David left me I became totally brokenhearted. |
| A lot of the advertisement is done by saying: first of all, have a complex about who you are. |
| I didn't want to become an actress because the competition with my mother would have been to much to live up to. |
| But my mother loved The Elephant Man, and my father gave David Lynch a scholarship to study in Rome. |
| If we are completely honest with ourselves, everyone has a dark side to their personalities. |
| Although Dorothy in Blue Velvet was humiliated and hurt by men, basically I could react to how she felt. |
| I am now at an age when they wanted me to play her mother. |
| These same people seem to forget that mother also took a lot of chances with the type of roles she played. |
| I like to extend myself as an actress and David really helped me. |
| In America, they are paranoid about ruining the reputations of people once they are dead and cannot answer back. They have this fascination which to me seems cruel and morbid. I do not want any part of it. |
| I am much more radical in my beliefs than my products represent me to be. |
