Jeanne Moreau Quotes & Sayings (Page 7)

“If you're extremely, painfully frightened of age, it shows.”

“It's dangerous to assert oneself.”

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

“My life is very exciting now.”

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”