Isabelle Adjani Quotes

If I had not passed through trial - through passion, one could say - through these years so painful and so rich, I don't believe I could take on my life and my career as I do today.

Passion is all but soft, it's not tender, it's violence to which you get hooked by pleasure.

The Method is Judeo-Christian: if you go through pain, you can't miss. Rubbish. I'm more interested in the box itself than what's in it. How vs why.

Today I trust my instinct, I trust myself. Finally.

I don't think of it at the moment, but the roles that interest me are those of young people.

You must take the risk to disclose yourself in order to become more real, more human. And even if the price is high.

I've learned that to expose yourself, to reveal yourself is a test of your humanness.

My limits will be better marked. Both the limits I will set, and my own limits.

I do not want to work to correspond to an image.

There has already been the karmic work: that what life has transformed in me, this initiation brought on, of necessity, by trials.

I want to work beyond external aggressions, forget that one has something to do for others if it's not for oneself.

One believes that if nothing happens, one disappears. That is not true.

One can not love without opening oneself, and opening oneself, that's taking the risk of suffering. One does not have control.

There are people who never experience that, who remain closed until death, from fear of change.

I believe you can't be an actor if you haven't had the feeling of being abandoned as a child.

I think that we all carry the divine within us.

I believe that when you work on yourself, you are attracted by different, more positive beings.

I have no fear of being less beautiful, I've always been afraid of not being beautiful.

One can be emptied out and be filled up.

Before, for me, peace could have been synonymous with boredom.

To leave in search of yourself, of your real needs, is easier when you don't have to justify yourself to anyone, when there are not too many people bestowing you their attention.

I'm in an agreeable state: busy, enthusiastic, curious.

There has also been much love, joy, evidence of admiration, there has never been one without the other.

Passion surprises. One doesn't search it. It can happen to you tomorrow.

To change, that is the most difficult thing to accomplish.

You protect your being when you love yourself better. That's the secret.

I believe in angels, so it's simple.

In love, one should simplify, choose persons worthy of their promises and leave them if they don't keep them.

One is never ready for success. It consecrates and looses you at the same time.

Nothingness not being nothing, nothingness being emptiness.

I've suffered too much to hide my feelings.

But no one frees himself from being in love in three days.