Jeanne Moreau quotes
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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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“Something pretty... that's just the surface. People worry so much about aging, but you look younger if you don't worry about it.”
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“Some gods may cross your path, but why should gods be beautiful? They could also be frightening.”
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“To me age is a number, just a number. Who cares?”
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“If you get trapped in the idea that what is most important is what image of yourself you're giving to the world, you're on a dangerous path.”
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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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“If you want to live your life through to the end, you have to live dangerously.”
-- Jeanne MoreauSource : Walter Isaacson (2011). “Steve Jobs”, p.190, Simon and Schuster
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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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“Women will not talk about football unless one of them is in love with a football player, and then suddenly you discover that they know everything that is to be known about it.”
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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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“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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“Every night I go over what I did in the day, in ethical or moral terms. Have I treated people properly? Did I tell the truth?”
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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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“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 of land will be a beautiful garden.”
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“I could live without acting.... Acting is a gift I've received. And I'm grateful for it and I enjoy it. But it's not the main point of my life. It never was.”
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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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“All fiction becomes autobiographical when the author has true talent.”
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“Usually when a woman is 60, it's over.”
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“Making films is no longer a way of acting, it is a way of life.”
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“During rehearsals I am confronted by things very mysterious. I have terrific fights with inner demons, and it's more painful than it ever was.”
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“The life you had is nothing. It is the life you have that is important.”
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“It's just as idiotic to say there is no life after death as it is to say there is one.”
-- Jeanne Moreau#Life After Death Quotes #Idiotic Quotes #After Death Quotes
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“You should not separate your life from what you do.”
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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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“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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“I can't belong to groups. I've tried. I behave normally, but people don't look at me normally.”
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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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“I can be intimidating, but not within the confines of a film shoot.”
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“Nostalgia is when you want things to stay the same. I know so many people staying in the same place.”
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“Success is like a liberation or the first phrase of a love story.”
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“I don't feel guilt. Whatever I wish to do, I do.”
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“Sometimes the directors were afraid of what they brought out of me.”
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“Some children I have met are very beautiful. Some children are imbeciles, vulgar, terrible.”
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“My face has changed with the years and has enough history in it to give audiences something to work with.”
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“Acting for me was the gospel, the love of the spoken word.”
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“I shall die very young...maybe seventy, maybe eighty, maybe ninety. But I shall be very young.”
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“One thing you have to give up is attaching importance to what people see in you.”
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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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“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 is the one driven by this inner fire, this delicious fear.”
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“In making dinner for a friend, don't forget the love.”
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“In these days people take up with each other and drop each other too easily. Pleasure is practiced like a sport, and the easy game of love leads to the dissolution of the feeling of love.”
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“nothing is more like truth than a lie, don't you find?”
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“I have always had the urge to open forbidden doors: with a curiosity and an obstinacy that verge on masochism.”
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“We have so many words for states of mind, and so few words for the states of the body.”
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“Acting isn't a profession, it's a way of living ...”
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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.”
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“Knowing how to die is knowing how to live. What is death anyway? It's the outcome of life.”
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“To give a character life in a short space of time, it helps if you arrive on screen with a past.”
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“To give and receive love, you have to be in touch with pain, you have to be capable of provoking it and feeling it.”
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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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“If you're extremely, painfully frightened of age, it shows.”
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“I'm always amazed when young women who are having babies want their husbands to watch the babies come out. I would never allow anything like that.”
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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 am a woman with absolutely no sense of nostalgia.”
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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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“Being an actress is to be in tune with the fantasies of a man. What woman never dreamt of that?”
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“People's opinions don't interfere with me.”
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“The cliche is that life is a mountain. You go up, reach the top and then go down.”
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“When Tony was madly in love with me, his relationship with Vanessa Redgrave was ending.”
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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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“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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“Some people are addicts. If they don't act, they don't exist.”
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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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“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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“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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“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.”
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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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“Life is an accomplishment and each moment has a meaning and you must use it.”
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