Quotes By Jeanne Moreau

I have no doubt who I am.

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

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?

It's dangerous to assert oneself.

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

I've never worried about age.

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

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.

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.

Living is risking.

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

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.

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.

Life doesn't end at 30.

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

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

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

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

People's opinions don't interfere with me.

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?

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

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

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