Jeanne Moreau Quotes
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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.
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I have no doubt who I am.
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Success is like a liberation or the first phrase of a love story.
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I've never worried about age.
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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.
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It's just as idiotic to say there is no life after death as it is to say there is one.
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My aim in life is not to judge.
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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?
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It's this subconscious part of me that knows just how far to go, and suddenly, everything bursts into flames.
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The cliche is that life is a mountain. You go up, reach the top and then go down.
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My analyst refused to hear my dreams. This was years ago.
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Making films is no longer a way of acting, it is a way of life.
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Why should we stop living because some people try to kill what is left of energy in ourselves?
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If you're extremely, painfully frightened of age, it shows.
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Life is given to you like a flat piece of land and everything has to be done. I hope that when I'm finished, my piece of land will be a beautiful garden.
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When Tony was madly in love with me, his relationship with Vanessa Redgrave was ending.
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Acting for me was the gospel, the love of the spoken word.
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Age protects love not, but love protects up to a certain degree before age.
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All those vitamins aren't to keep death at bay, they're to keep deterioration at bay.
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I could live without acting.... Acting is a gift I've received. And I'm grateful for it and I enjoy it. But it's not the main point of my life. It never was.
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It's a fantastic thing to take the risk of getting so close to your desire, expressing your obsession so absolutely.
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I don't feel guilt. Whatever I wish to do, I do.
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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.
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We have so many words for states of mind, and so few words for the states of the body.
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All fiction becomes autobiographical when the author has true talent.
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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.
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Some people are addicts. If they don't act, they don't exist.
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One thing you have to give up is attaching importance to what people see in you.
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Knowing how to die is knowing how to live. What is death anyway? It's the outcome of life.
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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?
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