Jeanne Moreau quotes

Jeanne Moreau was a highly acclaimed French actress, singer, and director. With a career spanning over six decades, Moreau became an icon of French cinema, earning worldwide recognition. Known for her intense performances and versatility, she starred in numerous influential films, including "Jules et Jim" and "Elevator to the Gallows." Moreau's unique blend of sensuality, intelligence, and vulnerability captivated audiences and critics alike. Her contributions to the film industry earned her multiple awards, a Cannes Special Jury Prize, and a César Award. Discover the legacy of this remarkable artist who left an indelible mark on the world of cinema.

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.

- Jeanne Moreau

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

- Jeanne Moreau

It's just as idiotic to say there is no life after death as it is to say there is one.

- Jeanne Moreau

My aim in life is not to judge.

- Jeanne Moreau

Characters who are on screen from start to finish are not necessarily the ones who have the greatest impact.

- Jeanne Moreau

My face has changed with the years and has enough history in it to give audiences something to work with.

- 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

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

Beyond the beauty, the sex, the titillation, the surface, there is a human being. And that has to emerge.

- Jeanne Moreau

I need, absolutely, to be alone.

- Jeanne Moreau

One thing you have to give up is attaching importance to what people see in you.

- 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

To go out with the setting sun on an empty beach is to truly embrace your solitude.

- Jeanne Moreau

Being an actress is to be in tune with the fantasies of a man. What woman never dreamt of that?

- 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.

- Jeanne Moreau

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

- Jeanne Moreau

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.

- Jeanne Moreau

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?

- 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

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

- 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.

- Jeanne Moreau

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

- Jeanne Moreau

Some gods may cross your path, but why should gods be beautiful? They could also be frightening.

- Jeanne Moreau

Some people are addicts. If they don't act, they don't exist.

- Jeanne Moreau

To give and receive love, you have to be in touch with pain, you have to be capable of provoking it and feeling it.

- Jeanne Moreau

All those vitamins aren't to keep death at bay, they're to keep deterioration at bay.

- Jeanne Moreau

Sometimes the directors were afraid of what they brought out of me.

- 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

People's opinions don't interfere with me.

- Jeanne Moreau