Quotes By Jeanne Moreau

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.

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

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.

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

I have no doubt who I am.

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

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

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.

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.

It's dangerous to assert oneself.

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

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.

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

I've never worried about age.

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

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.

Living is risking.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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