Jeanne Moreau Quotes

I don't feel guilt. Whatever I wish to do, I do.

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.

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.

Something pretty ... that's just the surface. People worry so much about aging, but you look younger if you don't worry about it.

Beyond the beauty, the sex, the titillation, the surface, there is a human being. And that has to emerge.

Some gods may cross your path, but why should gods be beautiful? They could also be frightening.

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

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

Sometimes the directors were afraid of what they brought out of me.

My life is very exciting now.

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

People's opinions don't interfere with me. Ageing gracefully is supposed to mean trying not to hide time passing and just looking a wreck. That's what they call ageing gracefully. You know?

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

My aim in life is not to judge.

It's a fantastic thing to take the risk of getting so close to your desire, expressing your obsession so absolutely.

You suffer when you give birth, it doesn't matter, it's nature. They tell you, oh, those hormone pills, they're terrible, you'll get cancer. But when it comes to Viagra for men, they don't speak about cancer.

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

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

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'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.

To go out with the setting sun on an empty beach is to truly embrace your solitude.

The cliche is that life is a mountain. You go up, reach the top and then go down.

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.

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.

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?

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

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

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.

I can't belong to groups. I've tried. I behave normally, but people don't look at me normally.

Characters who are on screen from start to finish are not necessarily the ones who have the greatest impact.

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.

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

To give and receive love, you have to be in touch with pain, you have to be capable of provoking it and feeling it.

Many people associate stage fright with a fear of looking ridiculous, making a bad impression. For me, it's like a kind of fever.

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.

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

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.

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

Although for some people cinema means something superficial and glamorous, it is something else. I think it is the mirror of the world.

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

We have so many words for states of mind, and so few words for the states of the body.

One thing you have to give up is attaching importance to what people see in you.

It's this subconscious part of me that knows just how far to go, and suddenly, everything bursts into flames.

You should not separate your life from what you do.

Knowing how to die is knowing how to live. What is death anyway? It's the outcome of life.

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.

I have no doubt who I am.

Living is risking.

Sometimes there is a great intimacy between women without any homosexuality. This is something that men are less likely to understand, because for them sensuality means sexual. It doesn't excite us to imagine two men together.

We have so many words for states of the mind, and so few for states of the body.

To me age is a number, just a number. Who cares?

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

Some people are addicts. If they don't act, they don't exist.

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.

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.

The life you had is nothing. It is the life you have that is important.

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

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.

In making dinner for a friend, don't forget the love.

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.

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.

Life doesn't end at 30.

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.