Jeanne Moreau Quotes

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

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

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 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.

I have no doubt who I am.

I am a woman with absolutely no sense of nostalgia.

My aim in life is not to judge.

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.

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?

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.

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

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

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?

People's opinions don't interfere with me.

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

I need, absolutely, to be alone.

Nostalgia is when you want things to stay the same. I know so many people staying in the same place.

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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

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?

Why should we stop living because some people try to kill what is left of energy in ourselves?

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

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

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.

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

All fiction becomes autobiographical when the author has true talent.

My analyst refused to hear my dreams. This was years ago.

Being an actress is to be in tune with the fantasies of a man. What woman never dreamt of that?

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

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.

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.

If you're extremely, painfully frightened of age, it shows.

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

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

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

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

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