Quotes By Jeanne Moreau

I need, absolutely, to be alone.

All fiction becomes autobiographical when the author has true talent.

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

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.

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

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.