Jeanne Moreau 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. View quote
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. View quote
Jeanne Moreau
We have so many words for states of the mind, and so few for states of the body. View quote
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. View quote
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. View quote
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. View quote
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. View quote
Jeanne Moreau
If you want to live your life through to the end, you have to live dangerously. View quote
Jeanne Moreau
One thing you have to give up is attaching importance to what people see in you. View quote
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. View quote
Jeanne Moreau
To give a character life in a short space of time, it helps if you arrive on screen with a past. View quote
Jeanne Moreau
Some children I have met are very beautiful. Some children are imbeciles, vulgar, terrible. View quote
Jeanne Moreau
Beyond the beauty, the sex, the titillation, the surface, there is a human being. And that has to emerge. View quote
Jeanne Moreau
My aim in life is not to judge. View quote
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. View quote
Jeanne Moreau
All those vitamins aren't to keep death at bay, they're to keep deterioration at bay. View quote
Jeanne Moreau
Success is like a liberation or the first phrase of a love story. View quote
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. View quote
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? View quote
Jeanne Moreau
Sometimes the directors were afraid of what they brought out of me. View quote
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. View quote
Jeanne Moreau
You should not separate your life from what you do. View quote
Jeanne Moreau