Isabelle Adjani quotes

Isabelle Adjani is a French actress renowned for her intense performances and striking beauty. Widely regarded as one of France’s greatest film stars, she has won multiple César Awards for Best Actress. She continues to captivate audiences with her powerful roles and dedication to her craft. Here are 33 of her quotes:

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

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Nothingness not being nothing, nothingness being emptiness.

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

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

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

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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. I think Camille saved me. I felt incredibly paranoid, just as Camille did. And do you know? I was able to use that in doing Camille's scenes. It made them better.

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

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

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I think that we all carry the divine within us.

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

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

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

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

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One can be emptied out and be filled up.

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

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

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I like films that rest in the memory so I try and choose parts which have some kind of social or emotional force. For me, being an actress is not just a profession but a profession of faith.

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

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I've suffered too much to hide my feelings.

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I'm in an agreeable state: busy, enthusiastic, curious.

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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.

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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.

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