Jeanne Moreau

Jeanne Moreau (born January 23, 1928 in Paris, France) is a French actress.

Found 15 thoughts of Jeanne Moreau

Something pretty... that's just the surface. People worry so much about aging, but you look younger if you don't worry about it.

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

To give a character life in a short space of time, it helps if you arrive on screen with a past.

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

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

People's opinions don't interfere with me.

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.

Women will not talk about football unless one of them is in love with a football player, and then suddenly you discover that they know everything that is to be known about it.

You should not separate your life from what you do.

Age does not protect you from love. But love, to some extent, protects you from age.

Some children I have met are very beautiful. Some children are imbeciles, vulgar, terrible.

I need, absolutely, to be alone.

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.

If you want to live your life through to the end, you have to live dangerously.

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.