Jeanne Moreau

I am a woman with absolutely no sense of nostalgia.

— Jeanne Moreau

It's this subconscious part of me that knows just how far to go, and suddenly, everything bursts into flames.

— Jeanne Moreau

People's opinions don't interfere with me. Ageing gracefully is supposed to mean trying not to hide time passing and just looking a…

— Jeanne Moreau

You should not separate your life from what you do.

— Jeanne Moreau

During rehearsals I am confronted by things very mysterious. I have terrific fights with inner demons, and it's more painful than it…

— Jeanne Moreau

It's dangerous to assert oneself.

— Jeanne Moreau

How can you say something's important if you don't first withdraw and feel how rich you've become? That way you can become…

— Jeanne Moreau

If you're extremely, painfully frightened of age, it shows.

— Jeanne Moreau

The life you had is nothing. It is the life you have that is important.

— Jeanne Moreau

People's opinions don't interfere with me.

— 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.…

— Jeanne Moreau

I can't belong to groups. I've tried. I behave normally, but people don't look at me normally.

— Jeanne Moreau

Success is like a liberation or the first phrase of a love story.

— Jeanne Moreau

Age protects love not, but love protects up to a certain degree before age.

— 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…

— Jeanne Moreau

Women will not talk about football unless one of them is in love with a football player, and then suddenly you discover…

— Jeanne Moreau

To be free means to choose, whose slave you want to be. ­

— Jeanne Moreau

To give the best of yourself, to be ready to please is OK for a while. But people expect certain things from…

— Jeanne Moreau

To me age is a number, just a number. Who cares?

— Jeanne Moreau

I've never worried about age.

— 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…

— Jeanne Moreau

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

— Jeanne Moreau

In these days people take up with each other and drop each other too easily. Pleasure is practiced like a sport, and…

— Jeanne Moreau

For me it's not possible to forget, and I don't understand people who, when the love is ended, can bury the other…

— 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…

— Jeanne Moreau