Isabelle Adjani's BIO Oscar nominee for 'Camille Claudel' (1988)
June 27, 1955 (Paris, France)
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  • My limits will be better marked. Both the limits I will set, and my own limits.
  • I think that we all carry the divine within us.
  • Passion surprises. One doesn't search it. It can happen to you tomorrow.
  • One believes that if nothing happens, one disappears. That is not true.
  • I've learned that to expose yourself, to reveal yourself is a test of your humanness.
  • Life has brought me work to do on myself these past two years.
  • One can not love without opening oneself, and opening oneself, that's taking the risk of suffering. One does not have control.
  • I have no fear of being less beautiful, I've always been afraid of not being beautiful.
  • One is never ready for success. It consecrates and looses you at the same time.
  • One can be emptied out and be filled up.
  • Nothingness not being nothing, nothingness being emptiness.
  • Before, for me, peace could have been synonymous with boredom.
  • I believe in angels, so it's simple.
  • There are people who never experience that, who remain closed until death, from fear of change.
  • But no one frees himself from being in love in three days.
  • I'm in an agreeable state: busy, enthusiastic, curious.
  • I do not want to work to correspond to an image.
  • What beauty in childhood, what purity, what openness before one lets oneself be killed and cruelty recloses all.
  • I live with all antennas out.
  • You must take the risk to disclose yourself in order to become more real, more human. And even if the price is high.
  • Passion is all but soft, it's not tender, it's violence to which you get hooked by pleasure.
  • 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 don't think of it at the moment, but the roles that interest me are those of young people.
  • 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.
  • Today I trust my instinct, I trust myself. Finally.
  • There has already been the karmic work: that what life has transformed in me, this initiation brought on, of necessity, by trials.
  • There has also been much love, joy, evidence of admiration, there has never been one without the other.
  • I want to work beyond external aggressions, forget that one has something to do for others if it's not for oneself.
  • That passion cuts everything else, it blocks all, it's what psychologists call unhealthy. It's what one calls total alienation.
  • 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.
  • To change, that is the most difficult thing to accomplish.
  • In love, one should simplify, choose persons worthy of their promises and leave them if they don't keep them.