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Some people are addicts. If they don't act, they don't exist.
Jeanne Moreau
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Life is an accomplishment and each moment has a meaning and you must use it.
Jeanne Moreau
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Knowing how to die is knowing how to live. What is death anyway? It's the outcome of life.
Jeanne Moreau
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The cliche is that life is a mountain. You go up, reach the top and then go down.
Jeanne Moreau
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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
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I can be intimidating, but not within the confines of a film shoot.
Jeanne Moreau
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Being an actress is to be in tune with the fantasies of a man. What woman never dreamt of that?
Jeanne Moreau
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During rehearsals I am confronted by things very mysterious. I have terrific fights with inner demons, and it's more painful than it ever was.
Jeanne Moreau
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To give a character life in a short space of time, it helps if you arrive on screen with a past.
Jeanne Moreau
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It's like climbing a staircase. I'm on the top of the staircase, I look behind me and I see the steps. That's where I was.
Jeanne Moreau
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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
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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
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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
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I am a woman with absolutely no sense of nostalgia.
Jeanne Moreau
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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
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My life is very exciting now.
Jeanne Moreau
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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
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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
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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
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You should not separate your life from what you do.
Jeanne Moreau
