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Jeanne Moreau

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    Jeanne Moreau

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

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    Jeanne Moreau

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

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    Jeanne Moreau

    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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    Jeanne Moreau

    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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    Jeanne Moreau

    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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    Jeanne Moreau

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

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    Jeanne Moreau

    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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    As soon as an actress is past 40, they call her a grande dame. As long as I'm here in good health, I'm stable.

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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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    Jeanne Moreau

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

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    Jeanne Moreau

    Characters who are on screen from start to finish are not necessarily the ones who have the greatest impact.

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    Jeanne Moreau

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

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    Jeanne Moreau

    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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    Jeanne Moreau

    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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    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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    Jeanne Moreau

    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?

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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 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 don't feel guilt. Whatever I wish to do, I do.

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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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    Jeanne Moreau

    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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    Jeanne Moreau

    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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    Jeanne Moreau

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

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    Jeanne Moreau

    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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    Jeanne Moreau

    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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    Jeanne Moreau

    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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    Jeanne Moreau

    I shall die very young...maybe seventy, maybe eighty, maybe ninety. But I shall be very young.

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    Jeanne Moreau

    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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    It's a fantastic thing to take the risk of getting so close to your desire, expressing your obsession so absolutely.

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    Jeanne Moreau

    It's dangerous to assert oneself.

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    Jeanne Moreau

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

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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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    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.

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    Jeanne Moreau

    I've never worried about age.

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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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    Jeanne Moreau

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

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    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.

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    Jeanne Moreau

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

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

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    Jeanne Moreau

    My aim in life is not to judge.

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

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

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    Jeanne Moreau

    People's opinions don't interfere with me.

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    Jeanne Moreau

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

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    Jeanne Moreau

    Some gods may cross your path, but why should gods be beautiful? They could also be frightening.