146 Quotes by Jeanne Moreau

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.

My face has changed with the years and has enough history in it to give audiences something to work with.

Some people are addicts. If they don't act, they don't exist.

Sometimes the directors were afraid of what they brought out of me.

To give a character life in a short space of time, it helps if you arrive on screen with a past.

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

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.

When you're a mother and you have a son, you hide your feminine side. It's the fear of incest, Oedipus.

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