Words matter. These are the best Jeanne Moreau Quotes, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
The cliche is that life is a mountain. You go up, reach the top and then go down.
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.
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.
Life doesn’t end at 30.
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.
Life is an accomplishment and each moment has a meaning and you must use it.
Death is an absolute mystery. We are all vulnerable to it, it’s what makes life interesting and suspenseful.
Living is risking.
Some children I have met are very beautiful. Some children are imbeciles, vulgar, terrible.
Making films is no longer a way of acting, it is a way of life.
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.
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 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.
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.
All those vitamins aren’t to keep death at bay, they’re to keep deterioration at bay.
I don’t feel guilt. Whatever I wish to do, I do.
I have no doubt who I am.
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’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.
My aim in life is not to judge.
Nostalgia is when you want things to stay the same. I know so many people staying in the same place.
Success is like a liberation or the first phrase of a love story.
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.
It’s dangerous to assert oneself.
Characters who are on screen from start to finish are not necessarily the ones who have the greatest impact.
To give and receive love, you have to be in touch with pain, you have to be capable of provoking it and feeling it.
I can be intimidating, but not within the confines of a film shoot.
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.
Sometimes the directors were afraid of what they brought out of me.
To give a character life in a short space of time, it helps if you arrive on screen with a past.
I need, absolutely, to be alone.
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.
It’s just as idiotic to say there is no life after death as it is to say there is one.
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 can’t belong to groups. I’ve tried. I behave normally, but people don’t look at me normally.
Something pretty… that’s just the surface. People worry so much about aging, but you look younger if you don’t worry about it.
Usually when a woman is 60, it’s over.
Knowing how to die is knowing how to live. What is death anyway? It’s the outcome of life.
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.
If you want to live your life through to the end, you have to live dangerously.
You should not separate your life from what you do.
