Isabelle Adjani

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.

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

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

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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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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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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.

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

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I believe you can't be an actor if you haven't had the feeling of being abandoned as a child.

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Quotes by Isabelle Adjani