“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.”
Fear
“I've never worried about age.”
AgeAll Quotes by 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.”
Time“All those vitamins aren't to keep death at bay, they're to keep deterioration at bay.”
Death“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.”
Success“I've never worried about age.”
Age“When you live under the power of terror and segregation, you can't ever start a work of art.”
Power“Beyond the beauty, the sex, the titillation, the surface, there is a human being. And that has to emerge.”
Beauty“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.”
Family“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.”
Hope“It's just as idiotic to say there is no life after death as it is to say there is one.”
Death“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.”
Alone“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.”
Death“Success is like a liberation or the first phrase of a love story.”
Success“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.”
Age“Knowing how to die is knowing how to live. What is death anyway? It's the outcome of life.”
Death“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.”
Health“To me age is a number, just a number. Who cares?”
Age“I need, absolutely, to be alone.”
Alone“When Tony was madly in love with me, his relationship with Vanessa Redgrave was ending.”
Relationship“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?”
Truth