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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. "

Isabelle Adjani

Say

Today

Life

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About

Night

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Kind

Choose

" 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. "

" 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. "

Isabelle Adjani

You

Yourself

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

" 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. "

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

Isabelle Adjani

Think

People

" 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. "

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

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

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

" If my life hadn't itself been a modern adaptation of 'Les Atrides,' I probably would never have left the theatre. "

" It doesn't need to be that violent and crazy and wild. Having experienced it, you don't belong to yourself anymore. You belong to the passion... It's something you have to go through to learn what passion is about. "

" 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 believe in angels, so it's simple. "

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

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

" If you are in a gym class with other women, and even if you are in shape, you feel like, 'Do they think my legs are not right?' Since you are supposed to be the perfect one, they look for the defects. It's such an embarrassment. "

" We can't forbid women from going to the beach because of a costume, even if it is rightly seen as neo-fundamentalist, backward, and shocking. "

" One can not love without opening oneself, and opening oneself, that's taking the risk of suffering. One does not have control. "

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

Isabelle Adjani

Peace

Been

" 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. "

" 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. "

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