Jeanne Moreau
Jeanne Moreau
Jeanne Moreauis a French actress, singer, screenwriter and director. She is the recipient of a César Award for Best Actress, a BAFTA Award for Best Foreign Actress and a Cannes Film Festival Best Actress Award for individual performances, and several lifetime awards...
NationalityFrench
ProfessionMovie Actress
Date of Birth23 January 1928
CityParis, France
CountryFrance
acting spoken-word
Acting for me was the gospel, the love of the spoken word.
young ninety dies
I shall die very young...maybe seventy, maybe eighty, maybe ninety. But I shall be very young.
acting way film
Making films is no longer a way of acting, it is a way of life.
dream years years-ago
My analyst refused to hear my dreams. This was years ago.
block worry flow
Life has to flow. But if you start worrying about it, you block time.
flames subconscious knows
It's this subconscious part of me that knows just how far to go, and suddenly, everything bursts into flames.
cancer men giving
You suffer when you give birth, it doesn't matter, it's nature. They tell you, oh, those hormone pills, they're terrible, you'll get cancer. But when it comes to Viagra for men, they don't speak about cancer.
long hierarchy lasts
I've been related to everything. Even the production; I knew how much it cost, I knew where the money went. It didn't last long, because hierarchy came back again.
directors knows
I know there were things emanating from me. I was not aware of what attracted all these directors to me.
long true-to-oneself oneself
As long as one asserts oneself and is true to oneself.
grateful acting actors
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.
distance two fire
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.
life-is-short character past
To give a character life in a short space of time, it helps if you arrive on screen with a past.
writing fiction talent
All fiction becomes autobiographical when the author has true talent.