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

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

If you get trapped in the idea that what is most important is what image of yourself you're giving to the world, you're on a dangerous path.
Jeanne Moreau

If you want to live your life through to the end, you have to live dangerously.
Jeanne Moreau

It's dangerous to assert oneself.
Jeanne Moreau

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

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

My aim in life is not to judge.
Jeanne Moreau

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

My life is very exciting now. Nostalgia for what? It's like climbing a staircase. I'm on the top of the staircase, I look behind and see the steps. That's where I was. We're here right now. Tomorrow, we'll be someplace else. So why nostalgia?
Jeanne Moreau

One thing you have to give up is attaching importance to what people see in you.
Jeanne Moreau

People's opinions don't interfere with me.
Jeanne Moreau

Some children I have met are very beautiful. Some children are imbeciles, vulgar, terrible.
Jeanne Moreau

Some gods may cross your path, but why should gods be beautiful? They could also be frightening.
Jeanne Moreau

Some people are addicts. If they don't act, they don't exist.
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

Sometimes the directors were afraid of what they brought out of me.
Jeanne Moreau

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

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

To give and receive love, you have to be in touch with pain, you have to be capable of provoking it and feeling it.
Jeanne Moreau