Quotes from Isabelle Adjani

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.

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

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

I'm a public figure. It's up to me to take the initiative to explain things. It's my responsibility.

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.

It's funny how people fantasise about your life sometimes. But it's so much quieter than they think.

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

American hypocrisy consists of thinking that everything is serious; French hypocrisy is to think that nothing is serious.

I am a follower of hyaluronic acid - always in small doses, of course - to fill wrinkles and fine lines.

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

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

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.'

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.

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?

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.

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

Journalists are still inventing things that never existed about me. Before, it made me cry, but now I laugh about it.

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