Jeanne Moreau Quotes

Jeanne Moreau (50)

Birth:	23rd January, 1928
Nationality:	French
Profession:	Actress, Director, Screenwriter, Singer

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• Creativity is an advertising agency’s most valuable asset, because it is the rarest.

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• You should not separate your life from what you do.

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

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• Sometimes the directors were afraid of what they brought out of me.

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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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• Some children I have met are very beautiful. Some children are imbeciles, vulgar, terrible.

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• People’s opinions don’t interfere with me.

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• One thing you have to give up is attaching importance to what people see in you.

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

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• My aim in life is not to judge.

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