Jeanne Moreau
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.Collection: Amazing
Beyond the beauty, the sex, the titillation, the surface, there is a human being. And that has to emerge.Collection: Beauty
Living is risking.Collection: Chance
Death is an absolute mystery. We are all vulnerable to it, it's what makes life interesting and suspenseful.Collection: Death
To go out with the setting sun on an empty beach is to truly embrace your solitude.Collection: Alone
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.
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?
When you live under the power of terror and segregation, you can't ever start a work of art.
Some gods may cross your path, but why should gods be beautiful? They could also be frightening.
Nostalgia is when you want things to stay the same. I know so many people staying in the same place.
All those vitamins aren't to keep death at bay, they're to keep deterioration at bay.
All fiction becomes autobiographical when the author has true talent.
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.
The cliche is that life is a mountain. You go up, reach the top and then go down.
Although for some people cinema means something superficial and glamorous, it is something else. I think it is the mirror of the world.
Life is an accomplishment and each moment has a meaning and you must use it.
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.
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.
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.
The life you had is nothing. It is the life you have that is important.
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?
If you want to live your life through to the end, you have to live dangerously.
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.
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.
Being an actress is to be in tune with the fantasies of a man. What woman never dreamt of that?
Characters who are on screen from start to finish are not necessarily the ones who have the greatest impact.
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 can be intimidating, but not within the confines of a film shoot.
I can't belong to groups. I've tried. I behave normally, but people don't look at me normally.
I don't feel guilt. Whatever I wish to do, I do.
I don't like the idea of separating life and work. That notion seems dated and a bit alien to me.
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.
I need, absolutely, to be alone.
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.
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.
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.
It's dangerous to assert oneself.
It's just as idiotic to say there is no life after death as it is to say there is one.
Knowing how to die is knowing how to live. What is death anyway? It's the outcome of life.
My aim in life is not to judge.
My face has changed with the years and has enough history in it to give audiences something to work with.
One thing you have to give up is attaching importance to what people see in you.
People's opinions don't interfere with me.
Some children I have met are very beautiful. Some children are imbeciles, vulgar, terrible.
Something pretty... that's just the surface. People worry so much about aging, but you look younger if you don't worry about it.
Sometimes the directors were afraid of what they brought out of me.
To give a character life in a short space of time, it helps if you arrive on screen with a past.
To give and receive love, you have to be in touch with pain, you have to be capable of provoking it and feeling it.
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.
When Tony was madly in love with me, his relationship with Vanessa Redgrave was ending.