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

- Jeanne Moreau

To go out with the setting sun on an empty beach is to truly embrace your solitude.

- Jeanne Moreau

To be free means to choose, whose slave you want to be. ­

- Jeanne Moreau

If you want to live your life through to the end, you have to live dangerously.

- Jeanne Moreau

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

I have always had the urge to open forbidden doors: with a curiosity and an obstinacy that verge on masochism.

- Jeanne Moreau

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

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

One thing you have to give up is attaching importance to what people see in you.

- Jeanne Moreau