Jeanne Moreau

Jeanne Moreau was a French actress, singer, screenwriter and director. She won the Cannes Film Festival Award for Best Actress for Seven Days…Seven Nights(1960), the BAFTA Award for Best Foreign Actress for Viva Maria! (1965) and the Cesar Award for Best Actress for The Old Lady Who Walked in the Sea (1992).

She was also the recipient of several lifetime awards, including a BAFTA Fellowship in 1996. Moreau made her theatrical debut in 1947 and established herself as one of the leading actresses of the Comedie-Francaise.

Date of birth:
23rd January, 1928
Date of death:
31st July, 2017
"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
Topic(s): Women
"I’m always amazed when young women who are having babies want their husbands to watch the babies come out. I would never allow anything like that."
― Jeanne Moreau
Topic(s): Women
"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
Topic(s): Time
"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
Topic(s): Success
"Success is like a liberation or the first phrase of a love story."
― Jeanne Moreau
Topic(s): Success
"When Tony was madly in love with me, his relationship with Vanessa Redgrave was ending."
― Jeanne Moreau
Topic(s): Relationship
"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
Topic(s): Hope
"My face has changed with the years and has enough history in it to give audiences something to work with."
― Jeanne Moreau
Topic(s): History
"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
Topic(s): Family
"Knowing how to die is knowing how to live. What is death anyway? It’s the outcome of life."
― Jeanne Moreau
Topic(s): Death

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