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We have so many words for states of mind, and so few words for the states of the body.

Jeanne Moreau

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Jeanne Moreau
Age: 89 †
Born: 1928
Born: January 23
Died: 2017
Died: July 31
Actor
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Beyond the beauty, the sex, the titillation, the surface, there is a human being. And that has to emerge.
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To give and receive love, you have to be in touch with pain, you have to be capable of provoking it and feeling it.
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Usually when a woman is 60, it's over.
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One thing you have to give up is attaching importance to what people see in you.
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Being an actress is to be in tune with the fantasies of a man. What woman never dreamt of that?
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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.
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To give a character life in a short space of time, it helps if you arrive on screen with a past.
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If you want to live your life through to the end, you have to live dangerously.
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All those vitamins aren't to keep death at bay, they're to keep deterioration at bay.
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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.
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Success is like a liberation or the first phrase of a love story.
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I know there were things emanating from me. I was not aware of what attracted all these directors to me.
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For me it's not possible to forget, and I don't 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.
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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.
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To me age is a number, just a number. Who cares?
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I need, absolutely, to be alone.
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