27 Quotes By Jeanne Moreau


Age does not protect you from love. But love, to some extent, protects you from age.
Jeanne Moreau on age

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.
Jeanne Moreau on age

I've never worried about age.
Jeanne Moreau on age

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

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

I need, absolutely, to be alone.
Jeanne Moreau on alone

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.
Jeanne Moreau on alone

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.
Jeanne Moreau on amazing

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

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.
Jeanne Moreau on change

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.
Jeanne Moreau on death

All those vitamins aren't to keep death at bay, they're to keep deterioration at bay.
Jeanne Moreau on death

Death is an absolute mystery. We are all vulnerable to it, it's what makes life interesting and suspenseful.
Jeanne Moreau on death

It's just as idiotic to say there is no life after death as it is to say there is one.
Jeanne Moreau on death

Knowing how to die is knowing how to live. What is death anyway? It's the outcome of life.
Jeanne Moreau on death

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.
Jeanne Moreau on family

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.
Jeanne Moreau on fear

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.
Jeanne Moreau on health

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

Life is given to you like a flat piece of land and everything has to be done. I hope that when I am finished, my piece of land will be a beautiful garden, so there is a lot of work.
Jeanne Moreau on hope