"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.

The actress, whose beautiful face (what haunting, expressive eyes!) and talent helped define the era of the French New Wave cinema, had a career that lasted over 70 years. Miss Moreau worked with some of the most famous directors on the planet, including Francois Truffaut (Jules & Jim), Orson Welles (The Trial), Elia Kazan (The Last Tycoon), Luis Bunuel (Diary of a Chambermaid) and Michelangelo Antonioni (La Notte).

French President Emmanuel Macron called Miss Moreau “a legend of cinema and theater…an actress who engaged in the whirlwind of life with an absolute freedom.”

"You don't have to be a wreck. You don't have to be sick. One's aim in life should be to die in good health. Just like a candle that burns out." -- Jeanne Moreau.

She seems to have passed the way she described in that quote, at home in her Paris apartment.

Jeanne Moreau went to that great New Wave reunion in the sky on July 31, 2017. She was 89.