Isabella Rossellini movie quotes

“This is life's ultimate cruelty. It offers us a taste of youth and vitality, and then it makes us witness our own decay.”
Isabella Rossellini - Lisle Von Rhuman

“My husband is having an affair with your wife. I don't think we should talk about it... unless you're prepared to kill them.”

Isabella Rossellini - Madeleine Regency

“As time goes by, we all have to take the best we can get.”
Isabella Rossellini - Countess' Martine

“- Lisle Von Rhoman: How old would you guess I am? C'mon, don't try to flatter me.
- Madeline Ashton: Thirty-eight?
[Lisle Von Rhoman glares at her]
- Madeline Ashton: Twenty-eight... no, twenty-three.”
Isabella Rossellini - Lisle Von Rhuman
Meryl Streep - Madeline Ashton

“- Trudy: You are in a room and there is a gun on the table. The only other person in the room is an adversary in commerce. Only one of you can prevail. Do you pick up the gun, Joy?
- Joy: I pick up the gun.”
Isabella Rossellini - Trudy
Jennifer Lawrence - Joy

“- Phyllis: You know how they get you, these people... men... boys... They make you think they have secrets they will tell. But they have nothing to tell. And then they talk, and they talk talk talk and keep talking. And what do they say?
- Gabriella: Nothing.
- Phyllis: Right.
- Gabriella: And then they smoke. And then they talk some more. And...” (continue)(continue reading)

Minnie Driver - Phyllis
Isabella Rossellini - Gabriella

“- Laura Klein: Why didn't you call and say you were alive?
- Max Klein: I thought I was dead.”
Isabella Rossellini - Laura Klein
Jeff Bridges - Max Klein

“I have a part of you with me. You put your disease in me. It helps me. It makes me strong.”

Isabella Rossellini - Dorothy Vallens

“You must make me a promise. The secret that we share must never become public. You may continue your career for ten years. Ten years of perfect, unchanged beauty. But at the end of that time, before people start to become suspicious, you have to disappear from public view forever.”

Isabella Rossellini - Lisle Von Rhuman

“Drink that potion, and you'll never grow even one day older. Don't drink it, and continue to watch yourself rot.”
Isabella Rossellini - Lisle Von Rhuman

“- Lisle Von Rhuman: But you'll never grow old!
- Ernest Menville: Yes, but everybody else will! I'll have to watch everyone around me die. I don't think this is right. This is not a dream. This is a nightmare!”
Isabella Rossellini - Lisle Von Rhuman
Bruce Willis - Ernest Menville

“- Maria: How many jobs did you have?
- Larry: I don't know. A lot. I change every two or three years. If it looks like I might be successful. I move on.
- Maria: You don't want to be successful?
- Larry: I want to be happy.”
Isabella Rossellini - Maria
Ted Danson - Larry

“- Laura Klein: We have lived together for 16 years. They have been great.
- Max Klein: Not always.
- Laura Klein: Yes, always. They've always been great for me. Even when I hate you, I know I love you.”
Isabella Rossellini - Laura Klein
Jeff Bridges - Max Klein

“So you think your book is worth a human life?”
Isabella Rossellini - Marella Agnelli

“- Dorothy Vallens: You think I'm crazy don't you? I want you to stay. Don't hate me.
- Jeffrey Beaumont: I sure don't hate you.
- Dorothy Vallens: I'm not crazy. I know the difference between right and wrong!”
Isabella Rossellini - Dorothy Vallens
Kyle MacLachlan - Jeffrey Beaumont

“- Dorothy Vallens: Are you a bad boy?
- Jeffrey Beaumont: What do you mean?
- Dorothy Vallens: Do you want to do bad things? Anything. Anything.
- Jeffrey Beaumont: What do you want?
- Dorothy Vallens: I want you to hurt me.”

Isabella Rossellini - Dorothy Vallens
Kyle MacLachlan - Jeffrey Beaumont

“- Lisle Von Rhoman: You're scared as Hell... of yourself. Of the body you once knew.
- Madeline Ashton: I beg your pardon?
- Lisle Von Rhoman: I am the one who understands. I am the one who knows your secret.”
Isabella Rossellini - Lisle Von Rhuman
Meryl Streep - Madeline Ashton