Jeanne Moreau
Success is like a liberation or the first phrase of a love story.
Some people are addicts. If they don't act, they don't exist.
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.
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.
I am a woman with absolutely no sense of nostalgia.
Making films is no longer a way of acting, it is a way of life.
We have so many words for states of the mind, and so few for states of the body.
My life is very exciting now.
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?
If you're extremely, painfully frightened of age, it shows.
I've never worried about age.
To me age is a number, just a number. Who cares?
Life doesn't end at 30.
Usually when a woman is 60, it's over.
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.
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.
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.
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.Collection: Beautiful
I shall die very young...maybe seventy, maybe eighty, maybe ninety. But I shall be very young.Collection: Ninety
To be free means to choose, whose slave you want to be. Collection: Mean
I have always had the urge to open forbidden doors: with a curiosity and an obstinacy that verge on masochism.Collection: Doors
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.Collection: Forgiveness
It's a fantastic thing to take the risk of getting so close to your desire, expressing your obsession so absolutely.Collection: Risk
In making dinner for a friend, don't forget the love.Collection: Dinner
We have so many words for states of mind, and so few words for the states of the body.Collection: Mind
nothing is more like truth than a lie, don't you find?Collection: Lying
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.Collection: Giving
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.Collection: Sports
It's this subconscious part of me that knows just how far to go, and suddenly, everything bursts into flames.Collection: Flames
Acting for me was the gospel, the love of the spoken word.Collection: Acting
Why should we stop living because some people try to kill what is left of energy in ourselves?Collection: People
Acting isn't a profession, it's a way of living.Collection: Acting
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.Collection: People
As long as one asserts oneself and is true to oneself.Collection: Long
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.Collection: Grateful
Liberation didn't solve anything. It just opened up the doors to greed. Some people mix up sex now as if they were eating or drinking like crazy.Collection: Sex
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?Collection: Giving
My analyst refused to hear my dreams. This was years ago.Collection: Dream
Life has to flow. But if you start worrying about it, you block time.Collection: Block
Age protects love not, but love protects up to a certain degree before age.Collection: Age
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.Collection: Long
Many people associate stage fright with a fear of looking ridiculous, making a bad impression. For me, it's like a kind of fever.Collection: People
I know there were things emanating from me. I was not aware of what attracted all these directors to me.Collection: Directors
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.Collection: Mean
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.Collection: Past
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.Collection: Cancer