Jane Birkin Quotes

• But who wants an easy life ? It's boring !

  Jane Birkin

  Want, Boring, Easy

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• I'd rather live on my own than live with a face that looks at me with the wrong eyes.

  Jane Birkin

  Eye, Faces, Looks

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• My look is a cocktail. I'm not as nicely turned out as the french, but I don't care like the English.

  Jane Birkin

  Fashion, Looks, Care

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• My mother was right: When you've got nothing left, all you can do is get into silk underwear and start reading Proust.

  Jane Birkin

  Mother, Reading, Underwear

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• Keep smiling - it takes 10 years off!

  Jane Birkin

  Smile, Years, Keep Smiling

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• When I made mistakes, people used to laugh. I could have learnt better, but I've always liked to make people laugh.

  Jane Birkin

  Mistake, People, Laughing

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I didn't really think of myself as being a muse.

  Jane Birkin

  Thinking, Muse

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• There's no fun in a bag if it's not kicked around, so that it looks as if the cat's been sitting on it-and it usually has. The cat may even be in it! I always put on stickers and beads and worry beads. You can get them from Greece, Israel, Palestine-from anywhere in the world. I always hang things on my bags because I don't like them looking like everyone else's.

  Jane Birkin

  Fun, Cat, Israel

  "Jane Birkin's Birkin Sells For $163,000!" by Tracey Lomrantz Lester, www.glamour.com. April 20, 2011.

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• If you fall in love with a country and its people, that makes any country warm to you.

  Jane Birkin

  Country, Falling In Love, People

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• Everything I wear doesnt put me in the league of women. If I were a boy, I could look a lot prettier than a lot of boys I know.

  Jane Birkin

  Boys, League, Looks

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• One of the things I've discovered, thanks to the Japanese, is that you should enjoy yourself. In the old days, I used to think: 'Oh, never be satisfied, never admit to being happy.' But there's no curse in being happy.

  Jane Birkin

  Thinking, Thanks, Used

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• People always like things that seem exotic.

  Jane Birkin

  People, Exotic, Seems

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• Any film I see at two o'clock in afternoon with my mother seems to cast a strange spell that means we both come out sobbing.

  Jane Birkin

  Mother, Mean, Two

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I know what it's like to have someone coming home who looks at you not in the way they used to in the old days, and I've seen my own face contorted with sadness and rage in the mirror.

  Jane Birkin

  Sad, Home, Mirrors

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• I only like boutiques.

  Jane Birkin

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• If I were mayor, I'd invite everyone to have free boat trips on the river and free balloon rides over the city. I'd let the elderly in residential homes wander free.

  Jane Birkin

  Home, Elderly, Cities

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• I don't know why people keep banging on about the '60s. I was very conventional because I came from a conventional family and I didn't go off with different people - I rather wish I had now, seeing all the fun everyone else was having.

  Jane Birkin

  Fun, People, Wish

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• When I was at school I used to scream in trains, in those concertina things between the carriages. I used to try to be so good that sometimes I couldn't bear it any more.

  Jane Birkin

  School, Trying, Bears

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• I love Dickens because it makes me chuckle to myself so. He has taken me to another world and out of so many earthly miseries.

  Jane Birkin

  Taken, World, Misery

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• I grind my teeth and keep my thumbs in so tight that I've dislocated them, just not to scream. Sometimes as an actor one is lucky enough to be asked to scream.

  Jane Birkin

  Teeth, Lucky, Actors

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• I loved having a crew. I loved being the person who woke at six in the morning and knew where to put the camera. I loved watching the actresses cry, and to know that if you were clever and didn't do too many rehearsals, that it just came that way.

  Jane Birkin

  Morning, Clever, Cameras

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I understand the joy of having a female actress like Charlotte [Gainsbourg] and watching her give everything, and be able to capture it.

  Jane Birkin

  Giving, Joy, Female

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Robert Louis Stevenson... I'm focusing on the late short stories that I was ignorant of. I always thought he was a boys' author, but he's not at all.

  Jane Birkin

  Boys, Hair, Ignorant

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• I remember being married to John Barry and trying to be the best wife in the world.

  Jane Birkin

  Wife, Trying, World

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