Nostalgia is when you want things to stay the same. I know so many people staying in the same place. – Jeanne Moreau
All those vitamins aren’t to keep death at bay, they’re to keep deterioration at bay. – Jeanne Moreau
Something pretty… that’s just the surface. People worry so much about aging, but you look younger if you don’t worry about it. – Jeanne Moreau
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. – Jeanne Moreau
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. – Jeanne Moreau
I can’t belong to groups. I’ve tried. I behave normally, but people don’t look at me normally. – 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. – Jeanne Moreau
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. – Jeanne Moreau
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. – Jeanne Moreau
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? – Jeanne Moreau
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. – Jeanne Moreau
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. – Jeanne Moreau
When you live under the power of terror and segregation, you can’t ever start a work of art. – 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. – Jeanne Moreau
Beyond the beauty, the sex, the titillation, the surface, there is a human being. And that has to emerge. – Jeanne Moreau
Some children I have met are very beautiful. Some children are imbeciles, vulgar, terrible. – Jeanne Moreau
Although for some people cinema means something superficial and glamorous, it is something else. I think it is the mirror of the world. – Jeanne Moreau
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. – Jeanne Moreau
Some gods may cross your path, but why should gods be beautiful? They could also be frightening. – Jeanne Moreau
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. – Jeanne Moreau
