Quotes By Jeanne Moreau

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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.

Life doesn't end at 30.

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

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

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?

I need, absolutely, to be alone.

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

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

All fiction becomes autobiographical when the author has true talent.

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

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.

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

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

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

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.