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Age Does Not Protect You From Love But Love To Some Extent Protects You From Age

Jeanne Moreau was a French actress, singer, screenwriter and director. She won the Cannes Film Festival Award for Best Actress for Seven Days... Seven Nights (1960), the BAFTA Award for Best Foreign Actress for Viva Maria! (1965), and the César Award for Best Actress for The Old Lady Who Walked in the Sea (1991).

Actress | French

Born: 1928-01-23 in Paris, France

Died: July 31, 2017 in Paris, France

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

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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.

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I've never worried about age.

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To me age is a number, just a number. Who cares?

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If you're extremely, painfully frightened of age, it shows.

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I need, absolutely, to be alone.

Jeanne Moreau

I think more and more people want to live alone. You can be a couple without being in each other's pockets. I don't see why you have to share the same bathroom.

Jeanne Moreau

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.

Jeanne Moreau

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

Jeanne Moreau

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.

Jeanne Moreau

As long as you don't make waves, ripples, life seems easy. But that's condemning yourself to impotence and death before you are dead.

Jeanne Moreau

All those vitamins aren't to keep death at bay, they're to keep deterioration at bay.

Jeanne Moreau

Death is an absolute mystery. We are all vulnerable to it, it's what makes life interesting and suspenseful.

Jeanne Moreau

It's just as idiotic to say there is no life after death as it is to say there is one.

Jeanne Moreau

Knowing how to die is knowing how to live. What is death anyway? It's the outcome of life.

Jeanne Moreau

I work more now because at this time of my life I am not disturbed from my aim by outside pressures such as family, passionate relationships, dealing with 'who am I?' - those complications when one is searching for one's self.

Jeanne Moreau

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.

Jeanne Moreau

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.

Jeanne Moreau

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

Jeanne Moreau

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.

Jeanne Moreau

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

Jeanne Moreau

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

Jeanne Moreau

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

Jeanne Moreau

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

Jeanne Moreau

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.

Jeanne Moreau

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.

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?

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