Isabelle Adjani Quotes

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

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.

One can be emptied out and be filled up.

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

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

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.

Life is worth being lived, but not being discussed all the time.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

Nothingness not being nothing, nothingness being emptiness.

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

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

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

Life has brought me work to do on myself these past two years.

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

I've suffered too much to hide my feelings.

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

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

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

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

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