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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.
Isabelle Adjani
I'm in an agreeable state: busy, enthusiastic, curious.
I went on French television for 20 minutes. It was very embarrassing to have to say, 'I'm not dead. I'm well. I'm not ill, and I don't have AIDS.' I hated doing it, because it was so insulting to those who really did have AIDS.
My limits will be better marked. Both the limits I will set, and my own limits.
One can not love without opening oneself, and opening oneself, that's taking the risk of suffering. One does not have control.
I do not want to work to correspond to an image.
It's funny how people fantasise about your life sometimes. But it's so much quieter than they think.
I'm a public figure. It's up to me to take the initiative to explain things. It's my responsibility.
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 take risks, but I don't lose respect for my real self. Because what's going to happen afterwards? How are you going to get back? Is there going to be a train, or will it be after midnight and you can't go home again?
I find the heated political debate over the burkini both ridiculous and dangerous.
But no one frees himself from being in love in three days.
It's exhilarating to read something that tells you that people saw something and felt something that you thought was so discreet. When they relate you to some of their own fantasies of who or how some actresses should be in movies. That's really kind of sweet!
One is never ready for success. It consecrates and looses you at the same time.
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.
You must take the risk to disclose yourself in order to become more real, more human. And even if the price is high.
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.
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.
I like to go see films that give me courage and hope.
I think that we all carry the divine within us.
There are people who never experience that, who remain closed until death, from fear of change.
One can be emptied out and be filled up.
To change, that is the most difficult thing to accomplish.
I'm a very secretive person. That's how I grew up. My father was very secretive.
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 believe that when you work on yourself, you are attracted by different, more positive beings.
You protect your being when you love yourself better. That's the secret.
I have no fear of being less beautiful, I've always been afraid of not being beautiful.
Life has brought me work to do on myself these past two years.
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.
I've learned that to expose yourself, to reveal yourself is a test of your humanness.
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 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.
You have to believe yourself to be the centre of the world, or you believe nothing. You start to treat yourself very badly.
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.
Today I trust my instinct, I trust myself. Finally.
I have a lot of friends in Paris, and I love to get away from home.
Simply, the majority of the most interesting filmmakers are the ones confronted with difficult situations. Their creativity blows a hole in the wall and lets in the light.
If I don't work very often, it's because what I read is written for formidable actresses, but actresses who make a habit of playing with their cup half full.
American hypocrisy consists of thinking that everything is serious; French hypocrisy is to think that nothing is serious.
I loved my freedom as an adolescent, and I'd love to be an adolescent again.
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.
Algeria keeps me awake at night. What about you?
I like films that rest in the memory, so I try and choose parts which have some kind of social or emotional force.
Before, for me, peace could have been synonymous with boredom.
There has already been the karmic work: that what life has transformed in me, this initiation brought on, of necessity, by trials.
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.'
One believes that if nothing happens, one disappears. That is not true.
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