Quotes By Jeanne Moreau

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

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.

You should not separate your life from what you do.

I am a woman with absolutely no sense of nostalgia.

My life is very exciting now.

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.

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

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

My aim in life is not to judge.

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?

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

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

People's opinions don't interfere with me. Ageing gracefully is supposed to mean trying not to hide time passing and just looking a wreck. That's what they call ageing gracefully. You know?

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

Acting deals with very delicate emotions. It is not putting up a mask. Each time an actor acts he does not hide; he exposes himself.

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

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

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

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

I have no doubt who I am.

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.

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

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.

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

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

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.

It's dangerous to assert oneself.

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

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.

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.