Jeanne Moreau
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"Jeanne Moreau" is a French actress, singer, screenwriter and director. She is the recipient of a César Award for Best Actress, a BAFTA Award for Best Actress in a Leading Role/BAFTA Award for Best Foreign Actress and a Best Actress Award (Cannes Film Festival)/Cannes Film Festival Best Actress Award for individual performances, and several lifetime awards.

Moreau made her theatrical debut in 1947, and established herself as one of the leading actresses of the Comédie-Française. She began playing small roles in films in 1949 and eventually achieved prominence as the star of Elevator to the Gallows/Lift to the Scaffold (UK)/Elevator to the Gallows (USA) (1958), directed by Louis Malle and Jules et Jim (1962), directed by François Truffaut. Most prolific during the 1960s, Moreau continues to appear in films to the present day.

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Acting deals with very delicate emotions. It is not putting up a mask. Each time an actor acts he does not hide; he exposes himself.

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.

Age does not protect you from love. But love, to some extent, protects you from age.

[Burt Lancaster] couldn't pick up an ashtray before discussing his motivation for an hour or so.

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.

Success is like a liberation or the first phrase of a love story . . . .

Some people are addicts. If they don't act, they don't exist.