Jane Birkin Quotes

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• I remember being married to John Barry and trying to be the best wife in the world.
• 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…
• My mother was right: When you've got nothing left, all you can do is get into silk underwear and start reading Proust.
• 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…
• I'd rather live on my own than live with a face that looks at me with the wrong eyes.
• Keep smiling - it takes 10 years off!
• 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…
• 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,…
• But who wants an easy life ? It's boring !
• 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.
• 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…
• 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…
• If you fall in love with a country and its people, that makes any country warm to you.
• 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.
• I only like boutiques.
• People always like things that seem exotic.
• 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…
• 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…
• My look is a cocktail. I'm not as nicely turned out as the french, but I don't care like the English.
• Big Ben... hearing the chimes makes me feel at home.

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