Quotes By Jeanne Moreau

The cliche is that life is a mountain. You go up, reach the top and then go down.

I've never worried about age.

To give a character life in a short space of time, it helps if you arrive on screen with a past.

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.

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.

I don't feel guilt. Whatever I wish to do, I do.

The life you had is nothing. It is the life you have that is important.

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.

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.

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.