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Jane Birkin (Actor)

Keep smiling - it takes 10 years off!

— Jane Birkin

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 man

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 sadness

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 health

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

— Jane Birkin live

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 art

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.

— Jane Birkin love

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

— Jane Birkin love

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 strange

I only like boutiques.

— Jane Birkin

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 people

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 time

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

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?'

— Jane Birkin school

Big Ben... hearing the chimes makes me feel at home.

— Jane Birkin home

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 race

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 death

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 people

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 children

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 joy

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 books

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 joy

People always like things that seem exotic.

— Jane Birkin people

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 stories

I always hang things on my bags because I don't like them looking like everyone else's.

— Jane Birkin

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