Jeanne Moreau Quotes
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I can't belong to groups. I've tried. I behave normally, but people don't look at me normally.
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Some children I have met are very beautiful. Some children are imbeciles, vulgar, terrible.
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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.
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Living is risking.
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Life doesn't end at 30.
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It's dangerous to assert oneself.
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One thing you have to give up is attaching importance to what people see in you.
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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?
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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.
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It's just as idiotic to say there is no life after death as it is to say there is one.
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Although for some people cinema means something superficial and glamorous, it is something else. I think it is the mirror of the world.
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Beyond the beauty, the sex, the titillation, the surface, there is a human being. And that has to emerge.
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Success is like a liberation or the first phrase of a love story.
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Nostalgia is when you want things to stay the same. I know so many people staying in the same place.
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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.
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People's opinions don't interfere with me. Ageing gracefully is supposed to mean trying not to hide time passing and just looking a wreck. That's what they call ageing gracefully. You know?
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Death is an absolute mystery. We are all vulnerable to it, it's what makes life interesting and suspenseful.
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We have so many words for states of the mind, and so few for states of the body.
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To me age is a number, just a number. Who cares?
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I don't like the idea of separating life and work. That notion seems dated and a bit alien to me.
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All fiction becomes autobiographical when the author has true talent.
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I need, absolutely, to be alone.
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If you're extremely, painfully frightened of age, it shows.
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Acting deals with very delicate emotions. It is not putting up a mask. Each time an actor acts he does not hide; he exposes himself.