Quotes by Jeanne Moreau

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

“[Burt Lancaster] couldnt pick up an ashtray before discussing his motivation for an hour or so.”

“Some people are addicts. If they dont act, they dont exist.”

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

“Women will not talk about football unless one of them is in love with a football player, and then suddenly you discover that they know everything that is to be known about it.”

“I dont 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.”

Age doesn’t protect you from love. But love, to some extent, protects you from age.

For me its not possible to forget and I dont understand people who when the love is ended can bury the other person in hatred or oblivion. For me a man I have loved becomes a kind of brother.

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

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

I dont think success is harmful as so many people say. Rather I believe it indispensible to talent: if for nothing else than to increase the talent.

Success is like a liberation or the first phase of a love affair.

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 ones self.

Living is risking.

You dont have to be a wreck. You dont have to be sick. Ones aim in life should be to die in good health. Just like a candle that burns out.

To go out with the setting sun on an empty beach is to truly embrace your solitude.