Jeanne Moreau

Actress

1928-01-23

Books by Jeanne Moreau

Rainer Werner Fassbinder
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Quotes by Jeanne Moreau

I think more and more people want to live alone. You can be a couple without being in each other's pockets. I don't see why you have to share the same bathroom.
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I need, absolutely, to be alone.
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If you're extremely, painfully frightened of age, it shows.
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To me age is a number, just a number. Who cares?
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I've never worried about age.
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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.
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To go out with the setting sun on an empty beach is to truly embrace your solitude.
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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?
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It's like climbing a staircase. I'm on the top of the staircase, I look behind me and I see the steps. That's where I was.
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When you live under the power of terror and segregation, you can't ever start a work of art.
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When Tony was madly in love with me, his relationship with Vanessa Redgrave was ending.
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All those vitamins aren't to keep death at bay, they're to keep deterioration at bay.
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Death is an absolute mystery. We are all vulnerable to it, it's what makes life interesting and suspenseful.
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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 already know.
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I work more now because at this time of my life I am not disturbed from my aim by outside pressures such as family, passionate relationships, dealing with 'who am I?' - those complications when one is searching for one's self.
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People's opinions don't interfere with me. Ageing gracefully is supposed to mean trying not to hide time passing and just looking a wreck. That's what they call ageing gracefully. You know?
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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.
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Age does not protect you from love. But love, to some extent, protects you from age.
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Age doesn't protect you from love. But love, to some extent, protects you from age.
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