Quotes By Jeanne Moreau

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.

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.

People's opinions don't interfere with me.

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

I need, absolutely, to be alone.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.