Top 70 Quotes & Sayings by Isabelle Adjani
Explore popular quotes and sayings by a French actress Isabelle Adjani.
Last updated on December 21, 2024.
I do not want to work to correspond to an image.
One believes that if nothing happens, one disappears. That is not true.
I'm in an agreeable state: busy, enthusiastic, curious.
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.
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.
Nothingness not being nothing, nothingness being emptiness.
One can be emptied out and be filled up.
The soul preserves beauty.
For me, being an actress is not just a profession but a profession of faith.
I like films that rest in the memory, so I try and choose parts which have some kind of social or emotional force.
I believe that when you work on yourself, you are attracted by different, more positive beings.
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.
I don't think of it at the moment, but the roles that interest me are those of young people.
I'm a public figure. It's up to me to take the initiative to explain things. It's my responsibility.
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?
I've learned that to expose yourself, to reveal yourself is a test of your humanness.
There has also been much love, joy, evidence of admiration, there has never been one without the other.
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.
Someone who is an artist can say, 'I can create and can make what I create disappear.'
There has already been the karmic work: that what life has transformed in me, this initiation brought on, of necessity, by trials.
One is never ready for success. It consecrates and looses you at the same time.
I have a lot of friends in Paris, and I love to get away from home.
Passion is very destructive.
I believe in angels, so it's simple.
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 suffered too much to hide my feelings.
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.
Life has brought me work to do on myself these past two years.
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.
If you are in a gym class with other women, and even if you are in shape, you feel like, 'Do they think my legs are not right?' Since you are supposed to be the perfect one, they look for the defects. It's such an embarrassment.
American hypocrisy consists of thinking that everything is serious; French hypocrisy is to think that nothing is serious.
But no one frees himself from being in love in three days.
I am a follower of hyaluronic acid - always in small doses, of course - to fill wrinkles and fine lines.
To change, that is the most difficult thing to accomplish.
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.
If my life hadn't itself been a modern adaptation of 'Les Atrides,' I probably would never have left the theatre.
In love, one should simplify, choose persons worthy of their promises and leave them if they don't keep them.
Passion surprises. One doesn't search it. It can happen to you tomorrow.
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.'
One can not love without opening oneself, and opening oneself, that's taking the risk of suffering. One does not have control.
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.
I loved my freedom as an adolescent, and I'd love to be an adolescent again.
Journalists are still inventing things that never existed about me. Before, it made me cry, but now I laugh about it.
I took the test for AIDS. I began to hate people who were not sick. Those people are monsters, I would think, believing that they are well because of moral superiority, because they are good. I identified with the loneliness of the sick. I felt that there was something pure about them.
You protect your being when you love yourself better. That's the secret.
Algeria keeps me awake at night. What about you?
There are people who never experience that, who remain closed until death, from fear of change.
I've never felt like a French actress.
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.
Passion is all but soft, it's not tender, it's violence to which you get hooked by pleasure.
I like to go see films that give me courage and hope.
My limits will be better marked. Both the limits I will set, and my own limits.
Before, for me, peace could have been synonymous with boredom.
I think that we all carry the divine within us.
I'm a very secretive person. That's how I grew up. My father was very secretive.
I have no fear of being less beautiful, I've always been afraid of not being beautiful.
I find the heated political debate over the burkini both ridiculous and dangerous.
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.
Today I trust my instinct, I trust myself. Finally.
It's funny how people fantasise about your life sometimes. But it's so much quieter than they think.
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