1.
Life is given to you like a flat piece of land and everything has to be done. I hope that when I'm finished, my piece of land will be a beautiful garden.
Jeanne Moreau
2.
To go out with the setting sun on an empty beach is to truly embrace your solitude.
Jeanne Moreau
3.
I shall die very young...maybe seventy, maybe eighty, maybe ninety. But I shall be very young.
Jeanne Moreau
4.
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.
Jeanne Moreau
5.
Something pretty... that's just the surface. People worry so much about aging, but you look younger if you don't worry about it.
Jeanne Moreau
6.
I have always had the urge to open forbidden doors: with a curiosity and an obstinacy that verge on masochism.
Jeanne Moreau
7.
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.
Jeanne Moreau
8.
To be free means to choose, whose slave you want to be. Â
Jeanne Moreau
9.
If you want to live your life through to the end, you have to live dangerously.
Jeanne Moreau
10.
To give and receive love, you have to be in touch with pain, you have to be capable of provoking it and feeling it.
Jeanne Moreau
11.
For me it's not possible to forget, and I don't understand people who, when the love is ended, can bury the other person in hatred or oblivion. For me, a man I have loved becomes a kind of brother.
Jeanne Moreau
12.
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
13.
Knowing how to die is knowing how to live. What is death anyway? It's the outcome of life.
Jeanne Moreau
14.
Although for some people cinema means something superficial and glamorous, it is something else. I think it is the mirror of the world.
Jeanne Moreau
15.
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.
Jeanne Moreau
16.
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.
Jeanne Moreau
17.
To me age is a number, just a number. Who cares?
Jeanne Moreau
18.
The life you had is nothing. It is the life you have that is important.
Jeanne Moreau
19.
In making dinner for a friend, don't forget the love.
Jeanne Moreau
20.
I don't feel guilt. Whatever I wish to do, I do.
Jeanne Moreau
21.
Being an actress is to be in tune with the fantasies of a man. What woman never dreamt of that?
Jeanne Moreau
22.
Some people are addicts. If they don't act, they don't exist.
Jeanne Moreau
23.
My aim in life is not to judge.
Jeanne Moreau
24.
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
25.
Some gods may cross your path, but why should gods be beautiful? They could also be frightening.
Jeanne Moreau
26.
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.
Jeanne Moreau
27.
I can't belong to groups. I've tried. I behave normally, but people don't look at me normally.
Jeanne Moreau
28.
One thing you have to give up is attaching importance to what people see in you.
Jeanne Moreau
29.
If you're extremely, painfully frightened of age, it shows.
Jeanne Moreau
30.
It's a fantastic thing to take the risk of getting so close to your desire, expressing your obsession so absolutely.
Jeanne Moreau
31.
All those vitamins aren't to keep death at bay, they're to keep deterioration at bay.
Jeanne Moreau
32.
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
33.
My face has changed with the years and has enough history in it to give audiences something to work with.
Jeanne Moreau
34.
All fiction becomes autobiographical when the author has true talent.
Jeanne Moreau
35.
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
36.
You're responsible for yourself as an actress, you know that your personal growth goes through that alchemy, and you give as much importance to your life as you do to your acting.
Jeanne Moreau
37.
We have so many words for states of mind, and so few words for the states of the body.
Jeanne Moreau
38.
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.
Jeanne Moreau
39.
You should not separate your life from what you do.
Jeanne Moreau
40.
Many people associate stage fright with a fear of looking ridiculous, making a bad impression. For me, it's like a kind of fever.
Jeanne Moreau
41.
Beyond the beauty, the sex, the titillation, the surface, there is a human being. And that has to emerge.
Jeanne Moreau
42.
The cliche is that life is a mountain. You go up, reach the top and then go down.
Jeanne Moreau
43.
Acting for me was the gospel, the love of the spoken word.
Jeanne Moreau
44.
Why should we stop living because some people try to kill what is left of energy in ourselves?
Jeanne Moreau
45.
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?
Jeanne Moreau
46.
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
47.
Characters who are on screen from start to finish are not necessarily the ones who have the greatest impact.
Jeanne Moreau
48.
Some children I have met are very beautiful. Some children are imbeciles, vulgar, terrible.
Jeanne Moreau
49.
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
50.
When you live under the power of terror and segregation, you can't ever start a work of art.
Jeanne Moreau
