Isabelle Adjani

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

— Isabelle Adjani

Before, for me, peace could have been synonymous with boredom.

— Isabelle Adjani

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

— Isabelle Adjani

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

— Isabelle Adjani

If I don't work very often, it's because what I read is written for formidable actresses, but actresses who make a habit…

— Isabelle Adjani

For me, being an actress is not just a profession but a profession of faith.

— Isabelle Adjani

I took the test for AIDS. I began to hate people who were not sick. Those people are monsters, I would think,…

— Isabelle Adjani

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

— Isabelle Adjani

Simply, the majority of the most interesting filmmakers are the ones confronted with difficult situations. Their creativity blows a hole in the…

— Isabelle Adjani

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…

— Isabelle Adjani

I loved my freedom as an adolescent, and I'd love to be an adolescent again.

— Isabelle Adjani

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

— Isabelle Adjani

I have no fear of being less beautiful, I've always been afraid of not being beautiful.

— Isabelle Adjani

You have to believe yourself to be the centre of the world, or you believe nothing. You start to treat yourself very…

— Isabelle Adjani

I like films that rest in the memory, so I try and choose parts which have some kind of social or emotional…

— Isabelle Adjani

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

— 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,…

— Isabelle Adjani

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

— Isabelle Adjani

Algeria keeps me awake at night. What about you?

— Isabelle Adjani

I like to go see films that give me courage and hope.

— Isabelle Adjani

If I had not passed through trial - through passion, one could say - through these years so painful and so rich,…

— Isabelle Adjani

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

— Isabelle Adjani

If you are in a gym class with other women, and even if you are in shape, you feel like, 'Do they…

— Isabelle Adjani

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…

— Isabelle Adjani

Someone who is an artist can say, 'I can create and can make what I create disappear.'

— Isabelle Adjani