Top 100 Moreau's Quotes
#1. 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?
Jeanne Moreau
#2. To go out with the setting sun on an empty beach is to truly embrace your solitude.
Jeanne Moreau
#3. I am a woman with absolutely no sense of nostalgia.
Jeanne Moreau
#4. I'm most interested in working and learning from different people and telling good stories.
Marguerite Moreau
#5. Something pretty ... that's just the surface. People worry so much about aging, but you look younger if you don't worry about it.
Jeanne Moreau
#6. You definitely want to do the little films. They're always going to be harder, but you don't do them to make money. You do them so you can see what you can make with the research that you have.
Marguerite Moreau
#7. I'm more of like a recreational surfer, not a consist surfer. Some people get out every week or every day.
Marguerite Moreau
#8. I can be intimidating, but not within the confines of a film shoot.
Jeanne Moreau
#9. The story follows the whole family. But pretty much all the characters who are in jail have written a book about it, so you've got their perspective of it, however skewed they want you to see it.
Marguerite Moreau
#10. It's this subconscious part of me that knows just how far to go, and suddenly, everything bursts into flames.
Jeanne Moreau
#11. Age doesn't protect you from love. But love, to some extent, protects you from age.
Jeanne Moreau
#13. Beyond the beauty, the sex, the titillation, the surface, there is a human being. And that has to emerge.
Jeanne Moreau
#14. It's a fantastic thing to take the risk of getting so close to your desire, expressing your obsession so absolutely.
Jeanne Moreau
#15. There's an easygoing nature that comes with a perspective of things that aren't as important as we make them sometimes.
Marguerite Moreau
#17. Success is like a liberation or the first phrase of a love story.
Jeanne Moreau
#18. To give a character life in a short space of time, it helps if you arrive on screen with a past.
Jeanne Moreau
#19. All those vitamins aren't to keep death at bay, they're to keep deterioration at bay.
Jeanne Moreau
#20. Parents are your teachers until a certain point, and if they don't give you love, you'll go somewhere else to find it.
Marguerite Moreau
#21. I didn't need clothes. I was allowed the opportunity to act out moments you don't get the opportunity to experience in your own life, let alone as a character in a film. I didn't feel naked.
Marguerite Moreau
#22. I am subject to very powerful lows. When you have highs, you have terrible lows. When you pinpoint that you are responsible for everything that happens to you, it is very frightening.
Jeanne Moreau
#23. I've always liked wrinkles. When I was a young girl, I used to make lines on my face with my nails because I loved Jeanne Moreau. I always wanted to be older; I always added years to my life. For the longest time, if people thought I was older, I would take it as a compliment.
Diane Von Furstenberg
#24. The second time, I had a freakin' vampire at my back." I froze. Oh shit. "No offense, Mr. Moreau," I quickly added.
"None taken, Agent Fraser. During the course of my lengthy life, I have been called many things, but 'freakin' has never been one of them. I'll consider it a novelty.
Lisa Shearin
#25. 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
#26. Being an actress is to be in tune with the fantasies of a man. What woman never dreamt of that?
Jeanne Moreau
#27. Life is an accomplishment and each moment has a meaning and you must use it.
Jeanne Moreau
#28. Miramax can buy a small independent movie that isn't very good, but because it has great relationships with different theaters, it can get into a big theater.
Marguerite Moreau
#29. 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.
Jeanne Moreau
#30. 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
#32. Our zeal is always guided by charity. Everything is done with strength and gentleness.
Basil Moreau
#34. Children of the Law,' I said, 'he is not dead.' M'ling turned his sharp eyes on me. 'He has changed his shape - he has changed his body,' I went on. 'For a time you will not see him. He is.. there' - I pointed upward - 'where he can watch you. You cannot see him. But he can see you. Fear the Law.
H.G.Wells
#35. With eyes of faith consider the greatness of your mission and the wonderful amount of good which you can accomplish.
Basil Moreau
#37. How can you say something's important if you don't first withdraw and feel how rich you've become? That way you can become really generous. Otherwise, what do you give?
Jeanne Moreau
#38. Education is the art of helping young people to completeness; for the Christian, this means education is helping a young person to be more like Christ, the model of all Christians.
Basil Moreau
#39. Life has to flow. But if you start worrying about it, you block time.
Jeanne Moreau
#40. I am dominated by one thing, an irresistible, burning attraction towards the abstract.
Gustave Moreau
#41. Since childhood, it was my dream to go where all the poets and artists had been. Rimbaud, Artaud, Brancusi, Camus, Picasso, Bresson, Goddard, Jeanne Moreau, Juliette Greco, everybody - Paris for me was a Mecca.
Patti Smith
#42. Christians better reflect God's glory and most effectively worship him when they fix their sights on enjoying God and find their deepest satisfaction in relating to and serving him (see Piper 1986).
A. Scott Moreau
#43. The smouldering eroticism of great European actresses like Jeanne Moreau demonstrated to my generations women's archetypal mystery and glamour, completely missing from the totalitarian world-view of the misogynist Foucault. For me, the big French D is not Derrida, but Deneuve.
Camille Paglia
#44. Every single day of making a movie is going to bring new problems.
Marguerite Moreau
#45. I like working in any medium. Who's making it? How much do I like the story? Does it contribute something?
Marguerite Moreau
#46. Some gods may cross your path, but why should gods be beautiful? They could also be frightening.
Jeanne Moreau
#47. Nothing is more like truth than a lie, don't you find?
Jeanne Moreau
#48. You should not separate your life from what you do.
Jeanne Moreau
#49. When Tony was madly in love with me, his relationship with Vanessa Redgrave was ending.
Jeanne Moreau
#50. We have so many words for states of mind, and so few words for the states of the body.
Jeanne Moreau
#51. Sometimes there is a great intimacy between women without any homosexuality. This is something that men are less likely to understand, because for them sensuality means sexual. It doesn't excite us to imagine two men together.
Jeanne Moreau
#52. As long as one asserts oneself and is true to oneself.
Jeanne Moreau
#53. There's no question in my mind that there's a problem with the funding of our universities here in Quebec.
Pierre Moreau
#54. I have always had the urge to open forbidden doors: with a curiosity and an obstinacy that verge on masochism.
Jeanne Moreau
#55. I loved her voice. Sort of raspy and breathy, but in a sexy way, not in an out-of-shape-smoker way. -Jessie, Love on the Red Rocks
Lisa Moreau
#56. Nostalgia is when you want things to stay the same. I know so many people staying in the same place.
Jeanne Moreau
#57. I can't belong to groups. I've tried. I behave normally, but people don't look at me normally.
Jeanne Moreau
#58. We had two cameras, so they could turn it on and shoot as much as we wanted. You don't have to worry about wasting money on film. A lot more takes are possible.
Marguerite Moreau
#59. One thing you have to give up is attaching importance to what people see in you.
Jeanne Moreau
#60. Some people are addicts. If they don't act, they don't exist.
Jeanne Moreau
#61. Characters who are on screen from start to finish are not necessarily the ones who have the greatest impact.
Jeanne Moreau
#62. For a moment, he rested his hand on the pitchfork, breath ragged. Strands of hair escaped the ponytail and fell over his eyes, making him look wild, untamed. He'd changed so much from that quiet boy. He'd had to, growing up with monsters as playmates.
Megan Shepherd
#63. Sometimes the directors were afraid of what they brought out of me.
Jeanne Moreau
#64. Very much indeed of what we call moral education is such an artificial modification and perversion of instinct; pugnacity is trained into courageous self-sacrifice, and suppressed sexuality into religious emotion.
H.G.Wells
#65. Acting deals with very delicate emotions. It is not putting up a mask. Each time an actor acts he does not hide; he exposes himself.
Jeanne Moreau
#66. 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
#67. To me age is a number, just a number. Who cares?
Jeanne Moreau
#68. It is God's hand which has guided everything, and it is God whom we must thank above all.
Basil Moreau
#69. With 'Moreau,' it's been particularly confusing because I started out being the writer of the screenplay and then trying to be the director, then being moved from being the director and having to become the dog extra, it makes some kind of sense to suddenly become a character in the story.
Richard Stanley
#70. 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
#71. Acting isn't a profession, it's a way of living ...
Jeanne Moreau
#72. Are we all bubbles blown by a baby?
H.G.Wells
#73. I believe neither in what I touch nor what I see. I only believe in what I do not see, and solely in what I feel.
Gustave Moreau
#74. We had a script that was really solid and we knew how we were going to shoot and how the energy of it was going to go. So it gave us a lot of freedom to use the camera as a character.
Marguerite Moreau
#76. 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
#77. Bearing witness from the sides of the room, ten or more lepers shouted at the bizarre scene, "Diable! Diable!" And then chants of some sort, or prayers, followed by more shouts of "Diable!" They were hurling these words at Moreau like stones.
Cole Alpaugh
#78. Who breaks the Law -' said Moreau, taking his eyes off his victim and turning towards us. It seemed to me there was a touch of exultation in his voice. '- goes back to the House of Pain,' they all clamoured; 'goes back to the House of Pain, O Master!
H.G.Wells
#79. Tough love - I'm kind of weary of that. I don't think it's so effective.
Marguerite Moreau
#81. To give and receive love, you have to be in touch with pain, you have to be capable of provoking it and feeling it.
Jeanne Moreau
#82. I know there were things emanating from me. I was not aware of what attracted all these directors to me.
Jeanne Moreau
#83. It's just as idiotic to say there is no life after death as it is to say there is one.
Jeanne Moreau
#84. You're responsible for yourself as an actress, you know that your personal growth goes through that alchemy, and you give as much importance to your life as you do to your acting.
Jeanne Moreau
#85. I perceived that I was hungry, and prepared to clamber out of the hammock which, very politely anticipating my intention, twisted round and deposited me upon the floor.
H.G.Wells
#88. Death is an absolute mystery. We are all vulnerable to it, it's what makes life interesting and suspenseful.
Jeanne Moreau
#89. I'm doing my work in an environment that's ultimately about dollars and cents.
Marguerite Moreau
#90. Acting for me was the gospel, the love of the spoken word.
Jeanne Moreau
#91. I've been related to everything. Even the production; I knew how much it cost, I knew where the money went. It didn't last long, because hierarchy came back again.
Jeanne Moreau
#93. You suffer when you give birth, it doesn't matter, it's nature. They tell you, oh, those hormone pills, they're terrible, you'll get cancer. But when it comes to Viagra for men, they don't speak about cancer.
Jeanne Moreau
#95. I gradually work myself into a frenzy as the shoot approaches, while we're choosing the costumes or working with the make-up artist. I'm not so much interested in my character as the film itself.
Jeanne Moreau
#96. The cliche is that life is a mountain. You go up, reach the top and then go down.
Jeanne Moreau
#97. 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
#98. The sun would come up over the ocean, and we'd be eating scrambled eggs before we shot some stuff. It was a vacation in the sense that it was the best working conditions.
Marguerite Moreau
#99. Over the last 20 years, everyone who interviews me feels compelled to ask at least one question about 'The Island of Dr. Moreau.'
Richard Stanley
#100. 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.
Jeanne Moreau
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