Top 80 Jeanne Moreau Quotes (2026 Update)
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51. “It’s dangerous to assert oneself.”

— Jeanne Moreau

52. “In these days people take up with each other and drop each other too easily. Pleasure is practiced like a sport, and the easy game of love leads to the dissolution of the feeling of love.”

— Jeanne Moreau

53. “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.”

— Jeanne Moreau

54. “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

55. “Some children I have met are very beautiful. Some children are imbeciles, vulgar, terrible.”

— Jeanne Moreau

56. “Age protects love not, but love protects up to a certain degree before age.”

— Jeanne Moreau

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

— Jeanne Moreau

58. “I need, absolutely, to be alone.”

— Jeanne Moreau

59. “I can be intimidating, but not within the confines of a film shoot.”

— Jeanne Moreau

60. “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?”

— Jeanne Moreau

61. “You suffer when you give birth, it doesn’t matter, it’s nature. They tell you, oh, those hormone pills, they’re terrible, you’ll get cancer. But when it comes to Viagra for men, they don’t speak about cancer.”

— Jeanne Moreau

62. “Acting isn’t a profession, it’s a way of living...”

— Jeanne Moreau

63. “I know there were things emanating from me. I was not aware of what attracted all these directors to me.”

— Jeanne Moreau

64. “Being an actress is to be in tune with the fantasies of a man. What woman never dreamt of that?”

— Jeanne Moreau

65. “It’s this subconscious part of me that knows just how far to go, and suddenly, everything bursts into flames.”

— Jeanne Moreau

66. “We have so many words for states of mind, and so few words for the states of the body.”

— Jeanne Moreau

67. “Some gods may cross your path, but why should gods be beautiful? They could also be frightening.”

— Jeanne Moreau

68. “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.”

— Jeanne Moreau

69. “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

70. “Characters who are on screen from start to finish are not necessarily the ones who have the greatest impact.”

— Jeanne Moreau

71. “All fiction becomes autobiographical when the author has true talent.”

— Jeanne Moreau

72. “I don’t like the idea of separating life and work. That notion seems dated and a bit alien to me.”

— Jeanne Moreau

73. “Making films is no longer a way of acting, it is a way of life.”

— Jeanne Moreau

74. “As soon as an actress is past 40, they call her a grande dame. As long as I’m here in good health, I’m stable.”

— Jeanne Moreau

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

— Jeanne Moreau

76. “As long as one asserts oneself and is true to oneself.”

— Jeanne Moreau

77. “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

78. “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

79. “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

80. “I’ve never worried about age.”

— Jeanne Moreau

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

— Jeanne Moreau

82. “Success is like a liberation or the first phrase of a love story.”

— Jeanne Moreau

83. “I am a woman with absolutely no sense of nostalgia.”

— Jeanne Moreau

84. “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.”

— Jeanne Moreau