#elf

If you get trapped in the idea that what is most important is what image of yourself you're giving to the world, you're on a dangerous path. ↗

— Jeanne Moreau

#get #giving #idea #image #important

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

#condemning #dead #death #easy #impotence

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. ↗

— Jeanne Moreau

#actor #acts #deals #delicate #does

I gradually work myself into a frenzy as the shoot approaches, while we're choosing the costumes or working with the make-up artist. I'm not so much interested in my character as the film itself. ↗

— Jeanne Moreau

#artist #character #choosing #costumes #film

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

#am #because #complications #dealing #disturbed

It's dangerous to assert oneself. ↗

— Jeanne Moreau

#dangerous #oneself

When I'm acting, I'm two beings. There's the one monitoring the distance between myself and the camera, making sure I hit my marks, and there is the one driven by this inner fire, this delicious fear. ↗

— Jeanne Moreau

#beings #between #camera #delicious #distance

I write as a way of keeping myself going. You build your life around writing, and it's what gets you through. So it's partly just curiosity to see what you can do. ↗

— Robert Morgan

#build #curiosity #gets #going #i

In the best fiction, the language itself can become almost invisible. ↗

— Robert Morgan

#become #best #fiction #invisible #itself

I didn't have high self-esteem when I was a teen-ager, as I think most teen-agers don't. ↗

— Alanis Morissette

#i #i think #most #self-esteem #think