Jeanne Moreau famous quotes

To go out with the setting sun on an empty beach is to truly embrace your solitude.
-- Jeanne Moreau

#Beach #Ocean #Sea

Something pretty... that's just the surface. People worry so much about aging, but you look younger if you don't worry about it.
-- Jeanne Moreau

#Retirement #People #Worry

Some gods may cross your path, but why should gods be beautiful? They could also be frightening.
-- Jeanne Moreau

#Beautiful #Scary #May

To me age is a number, just a number. Who cares?
-- Jeanne Moreau

#Birthday #Numbers #Age

If you get trapped in the idea that what is most important is what image of yourself you're giving to the world, you're on a dangerous path.
-- Jeanne Moreau

#Ideas #Giving #Important

Although for some people cinema means something superficial and glamorous, it is something else. I think it is the mirror of the world.
-- Jeanne Moreau

#Mean #Thinking #Mirrors

If you want to live your life through to the end, you have to live dangerously.
-- Jeanne Moreau

#Live Your Life #Want #Ends

As long as you don't make waves, ripples, life seems easy. But that's condemning yourself to impotence and death before you are dead.
-- Jeanne Moreau

#Long #Wave #Easy

Women will not talk about football unless one of them is in love with a football player, and then suddenly you discover that they know everything that is to be known about it.
-- Jeanne Moreau

#Football #Player #Football Player

My aim in life is not to judge.
-- Jeanne Moreau

#Judging #Life Is #Aim

When you live under the power of terror and segregation, you can't ever start a work of art.
-- Jeanne Moreau

#Art #Segregation #Terror

I think more and more people want to live alone. You can be a couple without being in each other's pockets. I don't see why you have to share the same bathroom.
-- Jeanne Moreau

#Couple #Thinking #People

Every night I go over what I did in the day, in ethical or moral terms. Have I treated people properly? Did I tell the truth?
-- Jeanne Moreau

#Night #People #Moral

You don't have to be a wreck. You don't have to be sick. One's aim in life should be to die in good health. Just like a candle that burns out.
-- Jeanne Moreau

#Sick #Wrecks #Good Health

Life is given to you like a flat piece of land and everything has to be done. I hope that when I'm finished, my piece of land will be a beautiful garden.
-- Jeanne Moreau

#Beautiful #Inspirational Life #Garden

I could live without acting.... Acting is a gift I've received. And I'm grateful for it and I enjoy it. But it's not the main point of my life. It never was.
-- Jeanne Moreau

#Grateful #Acting #Actors

I work more now because at this time of my life I am not disturbed from my aim by outside pressures such as family, passionate relationships, dealing with 'who am I?' - those complications when one is searching for one's self.
-- Jeanne Moreau

#Self #Pressure #Passionate

All fiction becomes autobiographical when the author has true talent.
-- Jeanne Moreau

#Writing #Fiction #Talent

Usually when a woman is 60, it's over.
-- Jeanne Moreau

Making films is no longer a way of acting, it is a way of life.
-- Jeanne Moreau

#Acting #Way #Film

During rehearsals I am confronted by things very mysterious. I have terrific fights with inner demons, and it's more painful than it ever was.
-- Jeanne Moreau

#Fighting #Inner Demons #Rehearsal

The life you had is nothing. It is the life you have that is important.
-- Jeanne Moreau

#Important

It's just as idiotic to say there is no life after death as it is to say there is one.
-- Jeanne Moreau

#Life After Death #Idiotic #After Death

You should not separate your life from what you do.
-- Jeanne Moreau

#Should

Aging gracefully is supposed to mean trying not to hide time passing and just looking a wreck. Don't worry girls, look like a wreck, that's the way it goes.
-- Jeanne Moreau

#Mean Girls #Worry #Trying

I need, absolutely, to be alone.
-- Jeanne Moreau

#Needs

My life is very exciting now. Nostalgia for what? It's like climbing a staircase. I'm on the top of the staircase, I look behind and see the steps. That's where I was. We're here right now. Tomorrow, we'll be someplace else. So why nostalgia?
-- Jeanne Moreau

#Hiking #Climbing #Steps

I can't belong to groups. I've tried. I behave normally, but people don't look at me normally.
-- Jeanne Moreau

#Hypnosis #People #Groups

All those vitamins aren't to keep death at bay, they're to keep deterioration at bay.
-- Jeanne Moreau

#Aggravation #Deterioration #Vitamins

I can be intimidating, but not within the confines of a film shoot.
-- Jeanne Moreau

#Film #Intimidating

Nostalgia is when you want things to stay the same. I know so many people staying in the same place.
-- Jeanne Moreau

#People #Want #Nostalgia

Success is like a liberation or the first phrase of a love story.
-- Jeanne Moreau

#Success #Congratulations #Phrases

I don't feel guilt. Whatever I wish to do, I do.
-- Jeanne Moreau

#Wish #Guilt #Feels

Sometimes the directors were afraid of what they brought out of me.
-- Jeanne Moreau

#Directors #Sometimes

Some children I have met are very beautiful. Some children are imbeciles, vulgar, terrible.
-- Jeanne Moreau

#Beautiful #Children #Imbeciles

My face has changed with the years and has enough history in it to give audiences something to work with.
-- Jeanne Moreau

#Years #Giving #Faces

Acting for me was the gospel, the love of the spoken word.
-- Jeanne Moreau

#Acting #Spoken Word

I shall die very young...maybe seventy, maybe eighty, maybe ninety. But I shall be very young.
-- Jeanne Moreau

#Ninety #Young

One thing you have to give up is attaching importance to what people see in you.
-- Jeanne Moreau

#Giving Up #People #Giving

I don't like going where I've already been. Life is a myriad of territories to discover. I don't want to waste time with what I already know.
-- Jeanne Moreau

#Want #Territory #Waste

When I'm acting, I'm two beings. There's the one monitoring the distance between myself and the camera, making sure I hit my marks, and there is the one driven by this inner fire, this delicious fear.
-- Jeanne Moreau

#Distance #Fire #Two

In making dinner for a friend, don't forget the love.
-- Jeanne Moreau

#Dinner #Forget

In these days people take up with each other and drop each other too easily. Pleasure is practiced like a sport, and the easy game of love leads to the dissolution of the feeling of love.
-- Jeanne Moreau

#Sports #Games #People

nothing is more like truth than a lie, don't you find?
-- Jeanne Moreau

#Lying

I have always had the urge to open forbidden doors: with a curiosity and an obstinacy that verge on masochism.
-- Jeanne Moreau

#Doors #Curiosity #Obstinacy

We have so many words for states of mind, and so few words for the states of the body.
-- Jeanne Moreau

#Mind #Body #Few Words

Acting isn't a profession, it's a way of living ...
-- Jeanne Moreau

#Acting #Actors #Way

For me it's not possible to forget, and I don't understand people who, when the love is ended, can bury the other person in hatred or oblivion. For me, a man I have loved becomes a kind of brother.
-- Jeanne Moreau

#Forgiveness #Brother #Love Is

Knowing how to die is knowing how to live. What is death anyway? It's the outcome of life.
-- Jeanne Moreau

#Knowing #Outcomes

To give a character life in a short space of time, it helps if you arrive on screen with a past.
-- Jeanne Moreau

#Life Is Short #Character #Past

To give and receive love, you have to be in touch with pain, you have to be capable of provoking it and feeling it.
-- Jeanne Moreau

#Giving Up #Pain #Love You

It's like climbing a staircase. I'm on the top of the staircase, I look behind me and I see the steps. That's where I was.
-- Jeanne Moreau

#Climbing #Looks #Steps

It's dangerous to assert oneself.
-- Jeanne Moreau

#Dangerous #Oneself

If you're extremely, painfully frightened of age, it shows.
-- Jeanne Moreau

#Birthday #Age #Frightened

I'm always amazed when young women who are having babies want their husbands to watch the babies come out. I would never allow anything like that.
-- Jeanne Moreau

#Baby #Husband #Watches

I have no doubt who I am.
-- Jeanne Moreau

#Who I Am #Doubt

I don't like the idea of separating life and work. That notion seems dated and a bit alien to me.
-- Jeanne Moreau

#Ideas #Geek #Aliens

I am a woman with absolutely no sense of nostalgia.
-- Jeanne Moreau

#Nostalgia

Death is an absolute mystery. We are all vulnerable to it, it's what makes life interesting and suspenseful.
-- Jeanne Moreau

#Interesting #Mystery #Vulnerable

Being an actress is to be in tune with the fantasies of a man. What woman never dreamt of that?
-- Jeanne Moreau

#Men #Tunes #Actresses

People's opinions don't interfere with me.
-- Jeanne Moreau

#People #Opinion #Interfere

The cliche is that life is a mountain. You go up, reach the top and then go down.
-- Jeanne Moreau

#Mountain #Life Is #Cliche

When Tony was madly in love with me, his relationship with Vanessa Redgrave was ending.
-- Jeanne Moreau

#Relationships Ending #Madly In Love

Beyond the beauty, the sex, the titillation, the surface, there is a human being. And that has to emerge.
-- Jeanne Moreau

#Sex #Surface #Humans

What is amazing for a woman of my age is that I change as the world is changing-and changing very, very fast. I don't think my mother had that opportunity to change.
-- Jeanne Moreau

#Birthday #Mother #Opportunity

I've never worried about age.
-- Jeanne Moreau

#Birthday #Age #Worried

Some people are addicts. If they don't act, they don't exist.
-- Jeanne Moreau

#People #Addiction #Addict

Characters who are on screen from start to finish are not necessarily the ones who have the greatest impact.
-- Jeanne Moreau

#Character #Impact

As a matter of principle, I always come to a film like a blank slate, I don't learn my lines in advance. With this approach, I feel clean.
-- Jeanne Moreau

#Principles #Lines #Matter

I gradually work myself into a frenzy as the shoot approaches, while we're choosing the costumes or working with the make-up artist. I'm not so much interested in my character as the film itself.
-- Jeanne Moreau

#Character #Artist #Costumes

I don't think success is harmful, as so many people say. Rather, I believe it indispensable to talent, if for nothing else than to increase the talent.
-- Jeanne Moreau

#Congratulations #Believe #Thinking

I am subject to very powerful lows. When you have highs, you have terrible lows. When you pinpoint that you are responsible for everything that happens to you, it is very frightening.
-- Jeanne Moreau

#Powerful #Scary #Responsible

Life is an accomplishment and each moment has a meaning and you must use it.
-- Jeanne Moreau

#Accomplishment #Use #Life Is