Explore Quotes by Jane Birkin

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 lucky enough to be asked to scream.

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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 of boys I know.