A biography for Isabelle Adjanihasn’t been written yet.
“One can be emptied out and be filled up.”
“American hypocrisy consists of thinking that everything is serious; French hypocrisy is to think that nothing is serious.”
“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 to go see films that give me courage and hope.”
“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 think that we all carry the divine within us.”
“I believe in angels, so it's simple.”
“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.”
“I do not want to work to correspond to an image.”
“There has also been much love, joy, evidence of admiration, there has never been one without the other.”
“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 don't think of it at the moment, but the roles that interest me are those of young people.”
“To change, that is the most difficult thing to accomplish.”
“I'm a public figure. It's up to me to take the initiative to explain things. It's my responsibility.”
“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.”
“I have a lot of friends in Paris, and I love to get away from home.”
“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.”
“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.”
“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.”
“I believe that when you work on yourself, you are attracted by different, more positive beings.”