Quotes by Jeanne Moreau

About Jeanne Moreau:

Jeanne Moreau is a French actress, singer, screenwriter and director. She is the recipient of a César Award for Best Actress, a BAFTA Award for Best Foreign Actress and a Cannes Film Festival Best Actress Award for individual performances, and several lifetime awards.
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To me age is a number, just a number. Who cares?

Jeanne Moreau

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

Jeanne Moreau

I've never worried about age.

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
Alone quotes by Jeanne Moreau, UberQuotes

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

Jeanne Moreau

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

I need, absolutely, to be alone.

Jeanne Moreau

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

Jeanne Moreau

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?

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

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

Jeanne Moreau

Life is given to you like a flat piece of land and everything has to be done. I hope that when I am finished, my piece of land will be a beautiful garden, so there is a lot of work.

Jeanne Moreau

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

Jeanne Moreau

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

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

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

Jeanne Moreau

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

Jeanne Moreau

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

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 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

Author Bio

  • NameJeanne Moreau
  • DescriptionFrench actress, singer, screenwriter and director
  • BornJanuary 23, 1928
  • CountryFrance
  • ProfessionActor; Film Actor; Film Director; Singer; Screenwriter; Musician
  • AwardsOfficer Of The Legion Of Honour; Grand Officer Of The National Order Of Merit; Commandeur Des Arts Et Des Lettres?; Donostia Award