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
years giving faces
My face has changed with the years and has enough history in it to give audiences something to work with.
giving-up people importance
One thing you have to give up is attaching importance to what people see in you.
pain giving-up love-you
To give and receive love, you have to be in touch with pain, you have to be capable of provoking it and feeling it.
giving important way
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?
giving growth acting
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.
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.
people giving certain
To give the best of yourself, to be ready to please is OK for a while. But people expect certain things from you, and you have to go beyond that and say, no.
ideas giving important
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.
few
We have so many words for states of the mind, and so few for states of the body.
fear feminine french-actress hide mother
When you're a mother and you have a son, you hide your feminine side. It's the fear of incest, Oedipus.
ageing call gracefully hide interfere mean passing supposed time trying
People's opinions don't interfere with me. Ageing gracefully is supposed to mean trying not to hide time passing and just looking a wreck. That's what they call ageing gracefully. You know?
risk desire obsession
It's a fantastic thing to take the risk of getting so close to your desire, expressing your obsession so absolutely.
interesting mystery vulnerable
Death is an absolute mystery. We are all vulnerable to it, it's what makes life interesting and suspenseful.
writing fiction talent
All fiction becomes autobiographical when the author has true talent.