Jane Birkin Quotes

English - Actress Born: December 14, 1946

Keep smiling - it takes 10 years off!

Smiling Keep Smiling Years Off

When you start recognising that you're having fun, life can be delightful.

Life You Having Fun Fun

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.

City River Boat Free

A Birkin bag is a very good rain hat; just put everything else in a plastic bag.

Good Rain Hat Bag

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

Mother You Start Reading

People always like things that seem exotic.

People Always Things Like

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.

Friend Best Man Best Friend

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.

Caring Past Lips Dangerous

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.

Eyes Red Look Colour

I colour my hair mousy brown and I wear makeup only on stage. I use Laura Mercier - something called Biscuit, I think. I run one tiny sponge over my face and cover the red blotches. If I've got some rouge, I'll bung it on my mouth and cheeks.

Red Face Hair Think

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.

Love Myself Me World

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.

Hate Time Me Think

At school, I used to hear, 'You're a half-caste.' They'd laugh at my figure and say, 'Are you a boy or a girl?'

Girl School You Laugh

I don't much enjoy travelling, but I have always longed to take a slow train to Russia. I'd like to go alone - like writers do - with only a pencil and piece of paper as company. I'd take my sketchbook and note down all the wonderful details of other travellers.

Alone Enjoy Down Slow

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

Love People You Fall

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.

Beautiful Great People Think

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.

Mother Strange See I See

He painted me when I was young because he was in love with me, but now that he has loved me he doesn't paint me anymore.

Love Me Loved Young

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.

Family People Fun Wish

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.

Lucky Sometimes Enough Teeth

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.

Mirror Home Face Sadness

I only like boutiques.

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

Eyes Live Me Face

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.

Thought Short Always Late

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.

Good School Sometimes Try

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.

Voice Always Find Nothing

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