Jeanne Moreau quotes Born: 01/23/1928 Country: france

• 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. (Jeanne Moreau) [time/acts]
• Age does not protect you from love but love to some extent protects you from age. (Jeanne Moreau) [age/love/love/age]
• 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)
• All fiction becomes autobiographical when the author has true talent. (Jeanne Moreau)
• All those vitamins aren't to keep death at bay, they're to keep deterioration at bay. (Jeanne Moreau)
• 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)
• 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. (Jeanne Moreau)
• 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)
• Being an actress is to be in tune with the fantasies of a man. What woman never dreamt of that? (Jeanne Moreau)
• Beyond the beauty, the sex, the titillation, the surface, there is a human being. And that has to emerge. (Jeanne Moreau)
• Characters who are on screen from start to finish are not necessarily the ones who have the greatest impact. (Jeanne Moreau)
• Death is an absolute mystery. We are all vulnerable to it, it's what makes life interesting and suspenseful. (Jeanne Moreau)
• 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. (Jeanne Moreau)
• I can be intimidating, but not within the confines of a film shoot. (Jeanne Moreau)
• I can't belong to groups. I've tried. I behave normally, but people don't look at me normally. (Jeanne Moreau)
• I don't feel guilt. Whatever I wish to do, I do. (Jeanne Moreau)
• 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)
• I don't like the idea of separating life and work. That notion seems dated and a bit alien to me. (Jeanne Moreau)
• 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)
• 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. (Jeanne Moreau)
• I need, absolutely, to be alone. (Jeanne Moreau)
• 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)
• 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. (Jeanne Moreau)
• 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)
• If you want to live your life through to the end, you have to live dangerously. (Jeanne Moreau)
• It's dangerous to assert oneself. (Jeanne Moreau)
• It's just as idiotic to say there is no life after death as it is to say there is one. (Jeanne Moreau)
• Knowing how to die is knowing how to live. What is death anyway? It's the outcome of life. (Jeanne Moreau)
• My aim in life is not to judge. (Jeanne Moreau)
• My face has changed with the years and has enough history in it to give audiences something to work with. (Jeanne Moreau)
• 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)

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