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Usually when a woman is 60, it's over.

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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Film Actor
Film Director
Film Producer
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Success is like a liberation or the first phrase of a love story.
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I don't like the idea of separating life and work. That notion seems dated and a bit alien to me.
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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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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 know there were things emanating from me. I was not aware of what attracted all these directors to me.
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I have no doubt who I am.
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Why should we stop living because some people try to kill what is left of energy in ourselves?
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If you want to live your life through to the end, you have to live dangerously.
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I can be intimidating, but not within the confines of a film shoot.
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If you're extremely, painfully frightened of age, it shows.
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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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Characters who are on screen from start to finish are not necessarily the ones who have the greatest impact.
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Death is an absolute mystery. We are all vulnerable to it, it's what makes life interesting and suspenseful.
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To be free means to choose, whose slave you want to be. ­
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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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