Isabelle Adjani - biography

“It’s rare to find a director who really likes and knows how to look at a woman through a camera.”

“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 in it.  How v.  why.”

“I have no fear of being less beautiful, I’ve always been afraid of not being beautiful.”

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

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

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

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

“I’ve suffered too much to hide my feelings.”

“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.”

“Life has brought me work to do on myself these past two years.”

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

“Stars, they don’t exist anymore.”

“Superstars don’t exist anymore.”

“This is all very funny.  Today I am a star - and tomorrow?”

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

“I believe in angels, so it’s simple.”

“I believe that when you work on yourself, you are attracted by different, more positive beings.”

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

“I think that we all carry the divine within us.”

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

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

“Nothingness not being nothing, nothingness being emptiness.”

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

“One can be emptied out and be filled up.”

“Passion is all but soft, it’s not tender, it’s violence to which you get hooked by pleasure.”

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

“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 has appeared in the following films:
Le Petit bougnat (1970)
Faustine et le bel été (1972)
La Gifle (1974)
L’Histoire d’Adèle H. (1975)
Le Locataire (1976)
Barocco (1976)
Violette & François (1977)
The Driver (1978)
Nosferatu: Phantom der Nacht (1979)
Les Soeurs Brontë (1979)
Clara et les Chics Types (1981)
Possession (1981)
Quartet (1981)
L’Année prochaine... si tout va bien (1981)
Tout feu, tout flamme (1982)
Antonieta (1982)
Mortelle randonnée (1983)
L’Été meurtrier (1983)
Subway (1985)
T’as de beaux escaliers tu sais (1986)
Ishtar (1987)
Camille Claudel (1988)
Toxic Affair (1993)
La Reine Margot (1994)
Diabolique (1996)
La Repentie (2002)
Adolphe (2002)
Bon voyage (2003)
Monsieur Ibrahim et les fleurs du Coran (2003)
La Journée de la jupe (2009)
Mammuth (2010)
De force (2011)