Women who stay true to themselves are always more interesting and beautiful to me: women like Frida Kahlo, Georgia O'Keeffe and Anna Magnani - women who have style, chic, allure and elegance. They didn't submit to any standard of beauty - they defined it.

Women who stay true to themselves are always more interesting and beautiful to me: women like Frida Kahlo, Georgia O'Keeffe and Anna Magnani - women who have style, chic, allure and elegance. They didn't submit to any standard of beauty - they defined it.

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

I was always fascinated by the infinite, strange and 'scandalous' ways that insects copulate.

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

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

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