Jeanne Moreau
Quotations
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“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?” -Jeanne Moreau
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“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.” -Jeanne Moreau
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“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.” -Jeanne Moreau
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“When Tony was madly in love with me, his relationship with Vanessa Redgrave was ending.” -Jeanne Moreau
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“When you live under the power of terror and segregation, you can’t ever start a work of art.” -Jeanne Moreau
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“Age does not protect you from love. But love, to some extent, protects you from age.” -Jeanne Moreau
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“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.” -Jeanne Moreau
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“My face has changed with the years and has enough history in it to give audiences something to work with.” -Jeanne Moreau
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“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.” -Jeanne Moreau
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“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.” -Jeanne Moreau
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“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.” -Jeanne Moreau
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“Knowing how to die is knowing how to live. What is death anyway? It’s the outcome of life.” -Jeanne Moreau
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“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.” -Jeanne Moreau
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“Beyond the beauty, the sex, the titillation, the surface, there is a human being. And that has to emerge.” -Jeanne Moreau
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“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.” -Jeanne Moreau
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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. – Jeanne Moreau
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If you’re extremely, painfully frightened of age, it shows. – Jeanne Moreau
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