Jeanne Moreau Quotes

As long as one asserts oneself and is true to oneself.

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.

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.

People's opinions don't interfere with me.

To give a character life in a short space of time, it helps if you arrive on screen with a past.

Success is like a liberation or the first phrase of a love story.

I don't like the idea of separating life and work. That notion seems dated and a bit alien to me.

I need, absolutely, to be alone.

Death is an absolute mystery. We are all vulnerable to it, it's what makes life interesting and suspenseful.

Nostalgia is when you want things to stay the same. I know so many people staying in the same place.

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.

I could live without acting.... Acting is a gift I've received. And I'm grateful for it and I enjoy it. But it's not the main point of my life. It never was.

I can be intimidating, but not within the confines of a film shoot.

I know there were things emanating from me. I was not aware of what attracted all these directors to me.

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.

In these days people take up with each other and drop each other too easily. Pleasure is practiced like a sport, and the easy game of love leads to the dissolution of the feeling of love.

As soon as an actress is past 40, they call her a grande dame. As long as I'm here in good health, I'm stable.

I've been related to everything. Even the production; I knew how much it cost, I knew where the money went. It didn't last long, because hierarchy came back again.

When Tony was madly in love with me, his relationship with Vanessa Redgrave was ending.

Making films is no longer a way of acting, it is a way of life.

Usually when a woman is 60, it's over.

It's just as idiotic to say there is no life after death as it is to say there is one.

It's dangerous to assert oneself.

nothing is more like truth than a lie, don't you find?

Acting isn't a profession, it's a way of living.

How can you say something's important if you don't first withdraw and feel how rich you've become? That way you can become really generous. Otherwise, what do you give?

I am a woman with absolutely no sense of nostalgia.

My analyst refused to hear my dreams. This was years ago.

To give the best of yourself, to be ready to please is OK for a while. But people expect certain things from you, and you have to go beyond that and say, no.

Life has to flow. But if you start worrying about it, you block time.

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

I've never worried about age.

I have no doubt who I am.

Age protects love not, but love protects up to a certain degree before age.

Living is risking.

Success is like a liberation or the first phase of a love affair.

I don't think success is harmful as so many people say. Rather I believe it indispensible to talent: if for nothing else than to increase the talent.

Age does not protect you from love. But love to some extent protects you from age.

Age does not protect you from love but love to some extent protects you from age.

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.

Age doesn’t protect you from love. But love, to some extent, protects you from age.