Isabelle Adjani Quotes

• "Before, for me, peace could have been synonymous with boredom."
• "But no one frees himself from being in love in three days."
• "I believe in angels, so it's simple."
• "I believe that when you work on yourself, you are attracted by different, more positive beings."
• "I do not want to work to correspond to an image."
• "I don't think of it at the moment, but the roles that interest me are those of young people."
• "I have no fear of being less beautiful, I've always been afraid of not being beautiful."
• "I live with all antennas out."
• "I think that we all carry the divine within us."
• "I want to work beyond external aggressions, forget that one has something to do for others if it's not for oneself."
• "I'm in an agreeable state: busy, enthusiastic, curious."
• "I've learned that to expose yourself, to reveal yourself is a test of your humanness."
• "I've suffered too much to hide my feelings."
• "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."
• "In love, one should simplify, choose persons worthy of their promises and leave them if they don't keep them."
• "Life has brought me work to do on myself these past two years."
• "My limits will be better marked. Both the limits I will set, and my own limits."
• "Nothingness not being nothing, nothingness being emptiness."
• "One believes that if nothing happens, one disappears. That is not true."
• "One can be emptied out and be filled up."
• "One can not love without opening oneself, and opening oneself, that's taking the risk of suffering. One does not have control."
• "One is never ready for success. It consecrates and looses you at the same time."
• "Passion is all but soft, it's not tender, it's violence to which you get hooked by pleasure."
• "Passion surprises. One doesn't search it. It can happen to you tomorrow."
• "That passion cuts everything else, it blocks all, it's what psychologists call unhealthy. It's what one calls total alienation."
• "There are people who never experience that, who remain closed until death, from fear of change."
• "There has already been the karmic work : that what life has transformed in me, this initiation brought on, of necessity, by trials."
• "There has also been much love, joy, evidence of admiration, there has never been one without the other."
• "To change, that is the most difficult thing to accomplish."
• "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."
• "Today I trust my instinct, I trust myself. Finally."
• "What beauty in childhood, what purity, what openness before one lets oneself be killed and cruelty recloses all."
• "You must take the risk to disclose yourself in order to become more real, more human. And even if the price is high."
• "You protect your being when you love yourself better. That's the secret."