Jeanne Moreau Quotes - Page 3

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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

To give the best of yourself, to be ready to please is OK for a while. But people expect certain things from you, and you have to go beyond that and say, no.

As long as one asserts oneself and is true to oneself.

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.

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.

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.

When you live under the power of terror and segregation, you can't ever start a work of art.

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

How can you say something's important if you don't first withdraw and feel how rich you've become? That way you can become really generous. Otherwise, what do you give?

Nostalgia is when you want things to stay the same. I know so many people staying in the same place.

My analyst refused to hear my dreams. This was years ago.

Life is an accomplishment and each moment has a meaning and you must use it.

Life has to flow. But if you start worrying about it, you block time.

I've never worried about age.

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

Age protects love not, but love protects up to a certain degree before age.

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

Success is like a liberation or the first phrase of a love story.

I've been related to everything. Even the production; I knew how much it cost, I knew where the money went. It didn't last long, because hierarchy came back again.

Many people associate stage fright with a fear of looking ridiculous, making a bad impression. For me, it's like a kind of fever.