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People always like things that seem exotic.
Jane Birkin Quotes: People always like things that
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 Quotes: My look is a cocktail.
If you fall in love with a country and its people, that makes any country warm to you.
Jane Birkin Quotes: If you fall in love
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 Quotes: Robert Louis Stevenson ... I'm
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 Quotes: One of the things I've
My father was a painter, so I was encouraged to take a sketchbook everywhere. Cameras are perishable, but I still have tonnes of sketchbooks from all the trips I've ever been on. It gets you by when you don't know what to give people as a gift; drawings are good souvenirs.
Jane Birkin Quotes: My father was a painter,
I always hang things on my bags because I don't like them looking like everyone else's.
Jane Birkin Quotes: I always hang things on
Nothing has ever touched on what fun childhood was. Summer holidays were bliss. We made home movies, with real stories in them. My father had such charm and charisma, and made everything so funny.
Jane Birkin Quotes: Nothing has ever touched on
When my father died, my mother came back from being Mrs. Birkin to being Judy Campbell. She was a stunning actress. She came out of her shell. She was herself again: this very independent, funny, intellectual lady - and was able to perform again, which was her life before meeting my father squashed it out.
Jane Birkin Quotes: When my father died, my
A Birkin bag is a very good rain hat; just put everything else in a plastic bag.
Jane Birkin Quotes: A Birkin bag is a
When I made mistakes, people used to laugh. I could have learnt better, but I've always liked to make people laugh.
Jane Birkin Quotes: When I made mistakes, people
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 Quotes: My mother was right: When
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 Quotes: When I was at school
I use Elizabeth Arden Eight Hour Cream, £12, on my lips, and my arms if they're sunburned. I'm past caring that sunbathing is dangerous.
Jane Birkin Quotes: I use Elizabeth Arden Eight
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 Quotes: I loved having a crew.
Without my specs on, I think I look really great; then I put them on, and I scream. But at 62, I still think less is better. I use Clarins foundation, but I don't put it everywhere - I hate that covered look - so just on the sides of my nose where the veins have gone bang.
Jane Birkin Quotes: Without my specs on, I
But who wants an easy life ? It's boring !
Jane Birkin Quotes: But who wants an easy
I have never written a book about my life, despite being offered purses of gold. I made 'Boxes' because I wanted to make a sincere depiction of a daughter who has lost her father, or the jealousy one can feel towards a daughter who has become more beautiful than you and whose stepfather starts to take her shopping.
Jane Birkin Quotes: I have never written a
I think there is an extreme charm in the French, and actually it's their bolshiness that makes them such fun.
Jane Birkin Quotes: I think there is an
I had a baby at 19 and was a grandmother by 39. Now, my children lend me their children to take them off to Brittany. It's divine. I'm quite exceptionally lucky. I've never had a week without having all three of my daughters on the telephone.
Jane Birkin Quotes: I had a baby at
I'd rather live on my own than live with a face that looks at me with the wrong eyes.
Jane Birkin Quotes: I'd rather live on my
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 Quotes: Everything I wear doesnt put
My first husband, John Barry, was a composer. I couldn't believe that this sophisticated, talented genius chose me and not any of the other girls. I was so flattered, so excited, so in love with him. Of course, my parents were horrified, as he'd been married once and had a daughter with the au pair girl.
Jane Birkin Quotes: My first husband, John Barry,
I don't like getting older, but there's nothing I can do. Hitting 60 wasn't great, but I think I was lucky in not being that beautiful; it can be really cruel on people who have been stunning.
Jane Birkin Quotes: I don't like getting older,
I only like boutiques.
Jane Birkin Quotes: I only like boutiques.
When I arrived in France aged 20, I marched against the death penalty, which was an unpopular thing to protest against at the time.
Jane Birkin Quotes: When I arrived in France
My distinguishing feature is the gap between my teeth. I had to wear a brace because my teeth used to stick out like guns from a fortress.
Jane Birkin Quotes: My distinguishing feature is the
I think I did a lot of humorous films when I was young, and they were No. 1 films.
Jane Birkin Quotes: I think I did a
I think it's always good to read local authors or relevant books. In Egypt, I studied hieroglyphics and read everything about the mummies.
Jane Birkin Quotes: I think it's always good
Big Ben ... hearing the chimes makes me feel at home.
Jane Birkin Quotes: Big Ben ... hearing the
David Attenborough ... has that wonderful, breathy voice, and he's always so fascinated by what he's seeing. There's nothing about him that I can't find attractive.
Jane Birkin Quotes: David Attenborough ... has that
I put some red stuff on my mouth and cheeks so I look healthy - any old red lip pencil and a lip colour from Dr. Hauschka in a crushed berry tone. I never put anything on my eyes, or I look like Joan Crawford.
Jane Birkin Quotes: I put some red stuff
I never have more than one bag at a time. I think one is already quite enough. Also, I hate changing bags, so I never have the thing of having ten bags. Any bag that's with me will take the same course as I will. It will take the same airplanes and will be squashed in the same way and will be used as a cushion in the airports.
Jane Birkin Quotes: I never have more than
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 Quotes: Any film I see at
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 Quotes: I love Dickens because it
I don't know why people keep banging on about the '60s. 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 Quotes: I don't know why people
Jacques Doillon wanted me to be in his film, 'La Fille Prodigue,' and there I was, expecting, for some reason, this great bearded man, when a splendid looking red-Indian style man appeared at my door. I said no to his film because I knew that if I said yes, I would run off with him.
Jane Birkin Quotes: Jacques Doillon wanted me to
When you start recognising that you're having fun, life can be delightful.
Jane Birkin Quotes: When you start recognising that
I love the French very much, and I think they know that. I've been adopted here. They treat me as one of their own.
Jane Birkin Quotes: I love the French very
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 Quotes: If I were mayor, I'd
It's usually a jolly good trick to pick up a local tour guide. They can tell you all the anecdotes that make a place interesting. I'm one for rushing off to museums at the crack of dawn, eating fabulous things on terraces for lunch, and enjoying long dinners on balmy evenings.
Jane Birkin Quotes: It's usually a jolly good
I feel most comfortable in an old pair of jeans, Converse, and a man's jersey. My best friend cuts my hair with kitchen scissors.
Jane Birkin Quotes: I feel most comfortable in
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