Age does not protect you from love. But love, to some extent, protects you from age.
Jeanne Moreau
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
All fiction becomes autobiographical when the author has true talent.
Jeanne Moreau
All those vitamins aren't to keep death at bay, they're to keep deterioration at bay.
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.
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.
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
Being an actress is to be in tune with the fantasies of a man. What woman never dreamt of that?
Jeanne Moreau
Beyond the beauty, the sex, the titillation, the surface, there is a human being. And that has to emerge.
Jeanne Moreau
Characters who are on screen from start to finish are not necessarily the ones who have the greatest impact.
Jeanne Moreau
Death is an absolute mystery. We are all vulnerable to it, it's what makes life interesting and suspenseful.
Jeanne Moreau
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
I can be intimidating, but not within the confines of a film shoot.
Jeanne Moreau
I can't belong to groups. I've tried. I behave normally, but people don't look at me normally.
Jeanne Moreau
I don't feel guilt. Whatever I wish to do, I do.
Jeanne Moreau
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
I don't like the idea of separating life and work. That notion seems dated and a bit alien to me.
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.
Jeanne Moreau
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
I need, absolutely, to be alone.
Jeanne Moreau
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