Jeanne Moreau Quotes
Jeanne Moreau is a French actress, screenwriter and director.
(1928 - )
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Age does not protect you from love but love to some extent protects you from age.
[Happiness]
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Aging gracefully is supposed to mean trying not to hide time passing and just looking a wreck. Don't worry girls, look like a wreck, that's the way it goes.
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All fiction becomes autobiographical when the author has true talent.
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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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Although for some people cinema means something superficial and glamorous, it is something else. I think it is the mirror of the world.
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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, I feel clean.
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As long as you don't make waves, ripples, life seems easy. But that's condemning yourself to impotence and death before you are dead.
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Being an actress is to be in tune with the fantasies of a man. What woman never dreamt of that?
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Beyond the beauty, the sex, the titillation, the surface, there is a human being. And that has to emerge.
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Characters who are on screen from start to finish are not necessarily the ones who have the greatest impact.
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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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For me it's not possible to forget, and I don't understand people who, when the love is ended, can bury the other person in hatred or oblivion. For me, a man I have loved becomes a kind of brother.
[Forgiveness]
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I am subject to very powerful lows. When you have highs, you have terrible lows. When you pinpoint that you are responsible for everything that happens to you, it is very frightening.
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I can be intimidating, but not within the confines of a film shoot.
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I can't belong to groups. I've tried. I behave normally, but people don't look at me normally.
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I don't feel guilt. Whatever I wish to do, I do.
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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 don't like the idea of separating life and work. That notion seems dated and a bit alien to me.
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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.
[Success]
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I gradually work myself into a frenzy as the shoot approaches, while we're choosing the costumes or working with the make-up artist. I'm not so much interested in my character as the film itself.
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