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
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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?
mean-girls worry trying
Aging gracefully is supposed to mean trying not to hide time passing and just looking a wreck. Don't worry girls, look like a wreck, that's the way it goes.
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Sometimes there is a great intimacy between women without any homosexuality. This is something that men are less likely to understand, because for them sensuality means sexual. It doesn't excite us to imagine two men together.
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To be free means to choose, whose slave you want to be.
mean thinking mirrors
Although for some people cinema means something superficial and glamorous, it is something else. I think it is the mirror of the world.
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We have so many words for states of the mind, and so few for states of the body.
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When you're a mother and you have a son, you hide your feminine side. It's the fear of incest, Oedipus.
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.
ideas geek aliens
I don't like the idea of separating life and work. That notion seems dated and a bit alien to me.
directors knows
I know there were things emanating from me. I was not aware of what attracted all these directors to me.
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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.
character impact screens
Characters who are on screen from start to finish are not necessarily the ones who have the greatest impact.