Jeanne Moreau

If you get trapped in the idea that what is most important is what image of yourself you're giving to the world,…

— Jeanne Moreau

Acting for me was the gospel, the love of the spoken word.

— Jeanne Moreau

I gradually work myself into a frenzy as the shoot approaches, while we're choosing the costumes or working with the make-up artist.…

— Jeanne Moreau

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

— 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…

— Jeanne Moreau

Life doesn't end at 30.

— Jeanne Moreau

My life is very exciting now.

— Jeanne Moreau

Living is risking.

— Jeanne Moreau

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

— 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…

— Jeanne Moreau

Liberation didn't solve anything. It just opened up the doors to greed. Some people mix up sex now as if they were…

— Jeanne Moreau

In making dinner for a friend, don't forget the love.

— Jeanne Moreau

We have so many words for states of the mind, and so few for states of the body.

— Jeanne Moreau

Acting isn't a profession, it's a way of living.

— Jeanne Moreau

Why should we stop living because some people try to kill what is left of energy in ourselves?

— 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…

— Jeanne Moreau

We have so many words for states of mind, and so few words for the states of the body.

— Jeanne Moreau

The cliche is that life is a mountain. You go up, reach the top and then go down.

— Jeanne Moreau

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

— 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.…

— Jeanne Moreau

I need, absolutely, to be alone.

— Jeanne Moreau

I know there were things emanating from me. I was not aware of what attracted all these directors to me.

— Jeanne Moreau

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

— Jeanne Moreau

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

— Jeanne Moreau