146 Quotes by Jeanne Moreau

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

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.

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.

You’re responsible for yourself as an actress, you know that your personal growth goes through that alchemy, and you give as much importance to your life as you do to your acting.

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

Usually when a woman is 60, it’s over.

In making dinner for a friend, don’t forget the love.

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.

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.