Jeanne Moreau Quotes

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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'm finished, my piece…
• 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,…
• Characters who are on screen from start to finish are not necessarily the ones who have the greatest impact.
• Some people are addicts. If they don't act, they don't exist.
• I've never worried about age.
• 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…
• Beyond the beauty, the sex, the titillation, the surface, there is a human being. And that has to emerge.
• To give and receive love, you have to be in touch with pain, you have to be capable of provoking it and feeling it.
• To give a character life in a short space of time, it helps if you arrive on screen with a past.
• Some gods may cross your path, but why should gods be beautiful? They could also be frightening.
• I shall die very young...maybe seventy, maybe eighty, maybe ninety. But I shall be very young.
• Acting for me was the gospel, the love of the spoken word.
• One thing you have to give up is attaching importance to what people see in you.
• My face has changed with the years and has enough history in it to give audiences something to work with.
• Some children I have met are very beautiful. Some children are imbeciles, vulgar, terrible.
• Sometimes the directors were afraid of what they brought out of me.
• 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…
• 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…
• I can't belong to groups. I've tried. I behave normally, but people don't look at me normally.
• Life is an accomplishment and each moment has a meaning and you must use it.

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