84 Quotes by Isabelle Adjani

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.

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

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

I want to work beyond external aggressions, forget that one has something to do for others if it’s not for oneself.

When you hold a baby in your arms, you don't want to put it in a basket right away. You want to keep the baby close.

I took the test for AIDS. I began to hate people who were not sick. Those people are monsters, I would think, believing that they are well because of moral superiority, because they are good. I identified with the loneliness of the sick. I felt that there was something pure about them.

I like working emotions that can take you beyond your life. And yet you have to resist them in order remain within your life. Otherwise, you're burned. I like that fight. It's more of a fight with yourself.

Algeria keeps me awake at night. What about you?

For me to get up and feel the urge to go to the set and all that, I have to feel there is something tremendously vibrating to achieve there. I need to lose sometimes a consciousness of the person and the reality in order to be happy to come back into the reality and happier to live it for this cause, to be an artist in this life.