Jeanne Moreau

“I don't like the idea of separating life and work. That notion seems dated and a bit alien to me.”

“I've never worried about age.”

“It's like climbing a staircase. I'm on the top of the staircase, I look behind me and I see the steps. That's where I was.”

“I don't like going where I've already been. Life is a myriad of territories to discover. I don't want to waste time with what I already know.”

“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.”

“We have so many words for states of the mind, and so few for states of the body.”

“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.”

“Beyond the beauty, the sex, the titillation, the surface, there is a human being. And that has to emerge.”

“You don't have to be a wreck. You don't have to be sick. One's aim in life should be to die in good health. Just like a candle that burns out.”

“I have no doubt who I am.”

“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.”

“It's dangerous to assert oneself.”

“All fiction becomes autobiographical when the author has true talent.”

“People's opinions don't interfere with me.”

“Success is like a liberation or the first phrase of a love story.”

“I don't feel guilt. Whatever I wish to do, I do.”

“Sometimes the directors were afraid of what they brought out of me.”

“Every night I go over what I did in the day, in ethical or moral terms. Have I treated people properly? Did I tell the truth?”

“One thing you have to give up is attaching importance to what people see in you.”

“Usually when a woman is 60, it's over.”