Isabelle Adjani

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

The soul preserves beauty.

I have a lot of friends in Paris, and I love to get away from home.

I loved my freedom as an adolescent, and I'd love to be an adolescent again.

It doesn't need to be that violent and crazy and wild. Having experienced it, you don't belong to yourself anymore. You belong to the passion... It's something you have to go through to learn what passion is about.

Passion is very destructive.

Passion surprises. One doesn't search it. It can happen to you tomorrow.

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

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.

It's funny how people fantasise about your life sometimes. But it's so much quieter than they think.

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.

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