Jeanne Moreau

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?

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.

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.

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

When Tony was madly in love with me, his relationship with Vanessa Redgrave was ending.

When you live under the power of terror and segregation, you can't ever start a work of art.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

Knowing how to die is knowing how to live. What is death anyway? It's the outcome of life.

It's just as idiotic to say there is no life after death as it is to say there is one.

Death is an absolute mystery. We are all vulnerable to it, it's what makes life interesting and suspenseful.

All those vitamins aren't to keep death at bay, they're to keep deterioration at bay.

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.

Beyond the beauty, the sex, the titillation, the surface, there is a human being. And that has to emerge.

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.

I need, absolutely, to be alone.

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