146 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.

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.

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.

Sometimes there is a great intimacy between women without any homosexuality. This is something that men are less likely to understand, because for them sensuality means sexual. It doesn’t excite us to imagine two men together.

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

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

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.

It’s dangerous to assert oneself.

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?