Quotes By Jeanne Moreau

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

Life is given to you like a flat piece of land and everything has to be done. I hope that when I am finished, my piece of land will be a beautiful garden, so there is a lot of work.

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

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.

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.

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

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.

Age does not protect you from love. But love, to some extent, protects you from age.

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.

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

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?

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

My aim in life is not to judge.

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

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

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

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?

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.

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.