Quotes by Jeanne Moreau

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?

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.

I don’t think success is harmful, as so many people say. Rather, I believe it indispensable to talent, if for nothing else than to increase the talent.

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

When Tony was madly in love with me, his relationship with Vanessa Redgrave was ending.

When you live under the power of terror and segregation, you can’t ever start a work of art.

Age does not protect you from love. But love, to some extent, protects you from age.

Life is given to you like a flat piece of land and everything has to be done. I hope that when I am finished, my piece of land will be a beautiful garden, so there is a lot of work.

My face has changed with the years and has enough history in it to give audiences something to work with.

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.