Jeanne Moreau

Jeanne Moreau

24 quotes

French actress, singer, screenwriter and director Jeanne Moreau has a gift for language that makes complex ideas feel instantly clear. Jeanne Moreau's observations on Death are as sharp as their thoughts on Age, revealing genuine breadth of mind. Discover 27 of Jeanne Moreau's most memorable quotes, ranging across Death, Age, Success, Alone, and Truth. One standout: "When Tony was madly in love with me, his relationship with Vanessa Redgrave was ending."

“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

Death

All Quotes by Jeanne Moreau

“Age does not protect you from love. But love, to some extent, protects you from age.”

— Jeanne Moreau

Age

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

— Jeanne Moreau

Death

“To me age is a number, just a number. Who cares?”

— Jeanne Moreau

Age

“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

Family

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

— Jeanne Moreau

Death

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

— Jeanne Moreau

Success

“When Tony was madly in love with me, his relationship with Vanessa Redgrave was ending.”

— Jeanne Moreau

Relationship

“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

Alone

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

— Jeanne Moreau

Death

“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

Death

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

— Jeanne Moreau

Age

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

— Jeanne Moreau

Beauty

“I need, absolutely, to be alone.”

— Jeanne Moreau

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

Age

“All those vitamins aren't to keep death at bay, they're to keep deterioration at bay.”

— Jeanne Moreau

Death

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

— Jeanne Moreau

Power

“I've never worried about age.”

— Jeanne Moreau

Age

“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?”

— Jeanne Moreau

Truth

“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

Fear

“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.”

— Jeanne Moreau

Success