146 Quotes by 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.

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

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.

I’ve never worried about age.

I can’t belong to groups. I’ve tried. I behave normally, but people don’t look at me normally.

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.

You suffer when you give birth, it doesn’t matter, it’s nature. They tell you, oh, those hormone pills, they’re terrible, you’ll get cancer. But when it comes to Viagra for men, they don’t speak about cancer.

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.

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.