Quotes By Jeanne Moreau

Characters who are on screen from start to finish are not necessarily the ones who have the greatest impact.

People's opinions don't interfere with me. Ageing gracefully is supposed to mean trying not to hide time passing and just looking a wreck. That's what they call ageing gracefully. You know?

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.