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Jeanne Moreau [1928-0] French

Rank: 102
Actress

Jeanne Moreau is a French actress, singer, screenwriter and director. She is the recipient of a César Award for Best Actress, a BAFTA Award for Best Foreign Actress and a Cannes Film Festival Best Actress Award for individual performances, and several lifetime awards.

Alone, Age, Art, Beauty, Chance, Death, Family, Health, Hope, Power, Work

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To go out with the setting sun on an empty beach is to truly embrace your solitude.	Alone	101
When you live under the power of terror and segregation, you can't ever start a work of art.	Art, Power, Work	102
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.		103
Although for some people cinema means something superficial and glamorous, it is something else. I think it is the mirror of the world.		104
Acting deals with very delicate emotions. It is not putting up a mask. Each time an actor acts he does not hide; he exposes himself.		105
Age does not protect you from love. But love, to some extent, protects you from age.	Age	106
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	107
Beyond the beauty, the sex, the titillation, the surface, there is a human being. And that has to emerge.	Beauty	108
I don't like going where I've already been. Life is a myriad of territories to discover. I don't want to waste time with what I already know.		109
My life is very exciting now. Nostalgia for what? It's like climbing a staircase. I'm on the top of the staircase, I look behind and see the steps. That's where I was. We're here right now. Tomorrow, we'll be someplace else. So why nostalgia?		110
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	111
People's opinions don't interfere with me. Ageing gracefully is supposed to mean trying not to hide time passing and just looking a wreck. That's what they call ageing gracefully. You know?		112
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	113
The cliche is that life is a mountain. You go up, reach the top and then go down.		114
Nostalgia is when you want things to stay the same. I know so many people staying in the same place.		115
I am subject to very powerful lows. When you have highs, you have terrible lows. When you pinpoint that you are responsible for everything that happens to you, it is very frightening.		116
One thing you have to give up is attaching importance to what people see in you.		117
During rehearsals I am confronted by things very mysterious. I have terrific fights with inner demons, and it's more painful than it ever was.		118
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	119
I can't belong to groups. I've tried. I behave normally, but people don't look at me normally.		120
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	121
Women will not talk about football unless one of them is in love with a football player, and then suddenly you discover that they know everything that is to be known about it.		122
All those vitamins aren't to keep death at bay, they're to keep deterioration at bay.		123
Characters who are on screen from start to finish are not necessarily the ones who have the greatest impact.		124
Death is an absolute mystery. We are all vulnerable to it, it's what makes life interesting and suspenseful.		125
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.		126
Success is like a liberation or the first phrase of a love story.		201
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.		202
I don't feel guilt. Whatever I wish to do, I do.		203
I don't like the idea of separating life and work. That notion seems dated and a bit alien to me.		204
If you want to live your life through to the end, you have to live dangerously.		205
It's just as idiotic to say there is no life after death as it is to say there is one.		206
My aim in life is not to judge.		207
People's opinions don't interfere with me.		208
Something pretty... that's just the surface. People worry so much about aging, but you look younger if you don't worry about it.		209
To give and receive love, you have to be in touch with pain, you have to be capable of provoking it and feeling it.		210
When Tony was madly in love with me, his relationship with Vanessa Redgrave was ending.		211
The life you had is nothing. It is the life you have that is important.		212
Living is risking.	Chance	213
Life is an accomplishment and each moment has a meaning and you must use it.		214
All fiction becomes autobiographical when the author has true talent.		215
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.		216
I can be intimidating, but not within the confines of a film shoot.		217
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.		218
Some children I have met are very beautiful. Some children are imbeciles, vulgar, terrible.		219
Some gods may cross your path, but why should gods be beautiful? They could also be frightening.		220
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.		221
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.		222
I am a woman with absolutely no sense of nostalgia.		223
Making films is no longer a way of acting, it is a way of life.		224
We have so many words for states of the mind, and so few for states of the body.		225
To me age is a number, just a number. Who cares?		226
Life doesn't end at 30.		301
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?		302
Being an actress is to be in tune with the fantasies of a man. What woman never dreamt of that?		303
I need, absolutely, to be alone.		304
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.		305
It's dangerous to assert oneself.		306
Knowing how to die is knowing how to live. What is death anyway? It's the outcome of life.		307
My face has changed with the years and has enough history in it to give audiences something to work with.		308
Sometimes the directors were afraid of what they brought out of me.		309
To give a character life in a short space of time, it helps if you arrive on screen with a past.		310
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.		311
You should not separate your life from what you do.		312
Some people are addicts. If they don't act, they don't exist.		313
My life is very exciting now.		314
If you're extremely, painfully frightened of age, it shows.		315
I've never worried about age.		316
Usually when a woman is 60, it's over.		317
I have no doubt who I am.		318

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