Jane Birkin Quotes & Sayings

“Keep smiling - it takes 10 years off!”

“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.”

“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.”

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

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”

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

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

“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.”