It doesn’t need to be that violent and crazy and wild. Having experienced it, you don’t belong to yourself anymore. You belong to the passion… It’s something you have to go through to learn what passion is about. – Isabelle Adjani
I have no fear of being less beautiful, I’ve always been afraid of not being beautiful. – Isabelle Adjani
I like films that rest in the memory, so I try and choose parts which have some kind of social or emotional force. – Isabelle Adjani
I’ve learned that to expose yourself, to reveal yourself is a test of your humanness. – Isabelle Adjani
Simply, the majority of the most interesting filmmakers are the ones confronted with difficult situations. Their creativity blows a hole in the wall and lets in the light. – Isabelle Adjani
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. – Isabelle Adjani
The newspapers were saying, ‘You have AIDS.’ They actually said I was dead. I just threw myself into my work when the whispering campaign turned really ugly. – Isabelle Adjani
I believe that when you work on yourself, you are attracted by different, more positive beings. – Isabelle Adjani
I talked about the persecution of Algerians and told about racism in my childhood. And it was as if, after that, I wasn’t French anymore. – Isabelle Adjani
American hypocrisy consists of thinking that everything is serious; French hypocrisy is to think that nothing is serious. – Isabelle Adjani
I take risks, but I don’t lose respect for my real self. Because what’s going to happen afterwards? How are you going to get back? Is there going to be a train, or will it be after midnight and you can’t go home again? – Isabelle Adjani
I’m a public figure. It’s up to me to take the initiative to explain things. It’s my responsibility. – Isabelle Adjani
People tell me I’m doing all these intense women and that I should lighten up. Then I do a comedy that I’m not happy with, and I think, ‘Let’s go back to heavy, heart-breaking drama; it’s so much more fun.’ – Isabelle Adjani
There are people who never experience that, who remain closed until death, from fear of change. – Isabelle Adjani
If I don’t work very often, it’s because what I read is written for formidable actresses, but actresses who make a habit of playing with their cup half full. – Isabelle Adjani
