Quotes by 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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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.