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.
- Jeanne Moreau Quote

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

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 Quote

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 Quote

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

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

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

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.
- Jeanne Moreau Quote

I can be intimidating, but not within the confines of a film shoot.
- Jeanne Moreau Quote

I don't feel guilt. Whatever I wish to do, I do.
- Jeanne Moreau Quote

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.
- Jeanne Moreau Quote

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 Quote

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.
- Jeanne Moreau Quote

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.
- Jeanne Moreau Quote

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 Quote

If you want to live your life through to the end, you have to live dangerously.
- Jeanne Moreau Quote

It's just as idiotic to say there is no life after death as it is to say there is one.
- Jeanne Moreau Quote

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

My face has changed with the years and has enough history in it to give audiences something to work with.
- Jeanne Moreau Quote

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 Quote

People's opinions don't interfere with me.
- Jeanne Moreau Quote

Some children I have met are very beautiful. Some children are imbeciles, vulgar, terrible.
- Jeanne Moreau Quote

Some gods may cross your path, but why should gods be beautiful? They could also be frightening.
- Jeanne Moreau Quote

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 Quote

Success is like a liberation or the first phrase of a love story.
- Jeanne Moreau Quote

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

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 Quote

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

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 Quote

When Tony was madly in love with me, his relationship with Vanessa Redgrave was ending.
- Jeanne Moreau Quote

When you live under the power of terror and segregation, you can't ever start a work of art.
- Jeanne Moreau Quote

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.
- Jeanne Moreau Quote

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 Quote