3 December 2020 Jeanne Moreau Knowing how to die is knowing how to live. What is death anyway? It’s the outcome of life.
3 December 2020 Jeanne Moreau It’s just as idiotic to say there is no life after death as it is to say there is one.
3 December 2020 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.
3 December 2020 Jeanne Moreau My face has changed with the years and has enough history in it to give audiences something to work with.
3 December 2020 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.
3 December 2020 Jeanne Moreau All those vitamins aren’t to keep death at bay, they’re to keep deterioration at bay.
3 December 2020 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.
3 December 2020 Jeanne Moreau Beyond the beauty, the sex, the titillation, the surface, there is a human being. And that has to emerge.
3 December 2020 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.
3 December 2020 Jeanne Moreau When Tony was madly in love with me, his relationship with Vanessa Redgrave was ending.
3 December 2020 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.
3 December 2020 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.
3 December 2020 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?
3 December 2020 Jeanne Moreau When you live under the power of terror and segregation, you can’t ever start a work of art.
3 December 2020 Jeanne Moreau Death is an absolute mystery. We are all vulnerable to it, it’s what makes life interesting and suspenseful.
3 December 2020 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.
3 December 2020 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.
3 December 2020 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.
