I went on French television for 20 minutes. It was very embarrassing to have to say, ‘I’m not dead. I’m well. I’m not ill, and I don’t have AIDS.’ I hated doing it, because it was so insulting to those who really did have AIDS. – Isabelle Adjani
I am a follower of hyaluronic acid – always in small doses, of course – to fill wrinkles and fine lines. – Isabelle Adjani
Passion is all but soft, it’s not tender, it’s violence to which you get hooked by pleasure. – Isabelle Adjani
You must take the risk to disclose yourself in order to become more real, more human. And even if the price is high. – Isabelle Adjani
We can’t forbid women from going to the beach because of a costume, even if it is rightly seen as neo-fundamentalist, backward, and shocking. – Isabelle Adjani
I think we have to get back the value of behavior that is consistent with being taught: that’s to say, respecting teachers, listening, and not always expecting your opinion to take precedence. – Isabelle Adjani
I don’t think of it at the moment, but the roles that interest me are those of young people. – Isabelle Adjani
There has already been the karmic work: that what life has transformed in me, this initiation brought on, of necessity, by trials. – Isabelle Adjani
It’s funny how people fantasise about your life sometimes. But it’s so much quieter than they think. – Isabelle Adjani
There has also been much love, joy, evidence of admiration, there has never been one without the other. – Isabelle Adjani
One can not love without opening oneself, and opening oneself, that’s taking the risk of suffering. One does not have control. – Isabelle Adjani
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. – Isabelle Adjani
In love, one should simplify, choose persons worthy of their promises and leave them if they don’t keep them. – Isabelle Adjani
