Jeanne Moreau quotes

Jeanne Moreau was a renowned French actress, singer, and director celebrated for her work in cinema and theater. Her compelling performances in films like "Jules et Jim" and "Elevator to the Gallows" made her an icon of French New Wave cinema. She inspired generations of artists with her charisma and depth. Here are 65 of her quotes:

Age does not protect you from love. But love, to some extent, protects you from age. (Jeanne Moreau)

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

Jeanne Moreau

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

Jeanne Moreau

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

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

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.

Jeanne Moreau

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.

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

If you want to live your life through to the end, you have to live dangerously.

Jeanne Moreau

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

Jeanne Moreau

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

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.

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

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

Jeanne Moreau

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

Jeanne Moreau

My aim in life is not to judge.

Jeanne Moreau

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.

Jeanne Moreau

All those vitamins aren't to keep death at bay, they're to keep deterioration at bay.

Jeanne Moreau

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

Jeanne Moreau

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.

Jeanne Moreau

Death is an absolute mystery. We are all vulnerable to it, it's what makes life interesting and suspenseful. (Jeanne Moreau)

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

Jeanne Moreau

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

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

You should not separate your life from what you do.

Jeanne Moreau

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Jeanne Moreau

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Occupation: French Actress
Born: January 23, 1928
Died: July 31, 2017
Quotes count: 65
Wikipedia: Jeanne Moreau

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