One can not love without opening oneself, and opening oneself, that's taking the risk of suffering. One does not have control. Isabelle Adjani More Quotes by Isabelle Adjani More Quotes From Isabelle Adjani I want to work beyond external aggressions, forget that one has something to do for others if it's not for oneself. Isabelle Adjani aggression want forget I believe you can't be an actor if you haven't had the feeling of being abandoned as a child. Isabelle Adjani feelings believe children 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. Isabelle Adjani passion believe years I'm in an agreeable state: busy, enthusiastic, curious. Isabelle Adjani curious states busy But no one frees himself from being in love in three days. Isabelle Adjani being-in-love three There has already been the karmic work: that what life has transformed in me, this initiation brought on, of necessity, by trials. Isabelle Adjani initiation transformed trials Before, for me, peace could have been synonymous with boredom. Isabelle Adjani boredom could-have-been blessing My limits will be better marked. Both the limits I will set, and my own limits. Isabelle Adjani my-own limits I do not want to work to correspond to an image. Isabelle Adjani want I don't think of it at the moment, but the roles that interest me are those of young people. Isabelle Adjani roles people thinking There has also been much love, joy, evidence of admiration, there has never been one without the other. Isabelle Adjani evidence admiration joy The Method is Judeo-Christian: if you go through pain, you can't miss. Rubbish. I'm more interested in the box itself than what's in it. How vs why. Isabelle Adjani pain christian missing I loved my freedom as an adolescent, and I'd love to be an adolescent again. Isabelle Adjani again loved freedom love 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. Isabelle Adjani teachers value think opinion 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.' Isabelle Adjani me women happy people Life has brought me work to do on myself these past two years. Isabelle Adjani myself me work life