Top 33 Isabelle Adjani Quotes

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

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.

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

I’m a very secretive person. That’s how I grew up. My father was very secretive.

Algeria keeps me awake at night. What about you?

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.

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

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

One can be emptied out and be filled up.

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.

I think that we all carry the divine within us.

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

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

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.

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.

I find the heated political debate over the burkini both ridiculous and dangerous.

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

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

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

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

My limits will be better marked. Both the limits I will set, and my own limits.

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.’

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.

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

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’m in an agreeable state: busy, enthusiastic, curious.

Nothingness not being nothing, nothingness being emptiness.

It’s exhilarating to read something that tells you that people saw something and felt something that you thought was so discreet. When they relate you to some of their own fantasies of who or how some actresses should be in movies. That’s really kind of sweet!

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

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

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.

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