Jeanne Moreau Quotes

• You should not separate your life from what you do.

  Jeanne Moreau

• 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.

  Jeanne Moreau

• When you live under the power of terror and segregation, you can’t ever start a work of art.

  Jeanne Moreau

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

  Jeanne Moreau

• 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.

  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.

  Jeanne Moreau

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

  Jeanne Moreau

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

  Jeanne Moreau

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

  Jeanne Moreau

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

  Jeanne Moreau

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

  Jeanne Moreau

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

  Jeanne Moreau

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

  Jeanne Moreau

• Some children I have met are very beautiful. Some children are imbeciles, vulgar, terrible.

  Jeanne Moreau

• People’s opinions don’t interfere with me.

  Jeanne Moreau

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

  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

• My face has changed with the years and has enough history in it to give audiences something to work with.

  Jeanne Moreau

• My aim in life is not to judge.

  Jeanne Moreau

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

  Jeanne Moreau

Jeanne Moreau (50)

Birth:	23rd January, 1928
Nationality:	French
Profession:	Actress, Film Director, Screenwriter

About

Jeanne Moreau was born in Paris, France. She is a French actress, screenwriter and film director. She studied at the Conservatoire de Paris. Her role in several films include: The Man in My Life, Julietta, Touchez pas au grisbi, Elevator to the Gallows, Moderato cantabile (Won- Cannes Film Festival Award for Best Actress), A Woman Is a Woman, Jules and Jim, Diary of a Chambermaid, Viva Maria! (Won- BAFTA Award for Best Foreign Actress), The Last Tycoon, Querelle, Nikita, The Old Lady Who Walked in the Sea (Won- César Award for Best Actress), Beyond the Clouds, The Proprietor, Witch Way Love, Time to Leave, Romeo and Juliet, Disengagement, Face, and Gebo and the Shadow. She directed several films include: Lumière, and L'Adolescente(also screenwriter).

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