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Jeanne Moreau
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“... acting for me was the gospel, the love of the spoken word.”
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“Success is like a liberation, or the first phase of a love story.”
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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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“A woman who's boss of her own life always goes too far in the eyes of the righteous ...”
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“In these days people take up with each other and drop each other too easily. Pleasure is practiced like a sport, and the easy game of love leads to the dissolution of the feeling of love.”
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“... nothing is more like truth than a lie, don't you find?”
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“... I have always had the urge to open forbidden doors: with a curiosity and an obstinacy that verge on masochism.”
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“We have so many words for states of mind, and so few words for the states of the body.”
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“Age doesn't protect you from love. But love, to some extent, protects you from age.”
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“Acting isn't a profession, it's a way of living ...”
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“I shall die very young ... maybe seventy, maybe eighty, maybe ninety. But I shall be very young.”
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“In making dinner for a friend, don't forget the love.”
Jeanne Moreau, French actor, film director
(1928)