Jane Birkin Quotes & Sayings (Page 3)

“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.”

“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.”

“People always like things that seem exotic.”

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

“I can't be the only person in the world to have three different husbands, and yet those relationships are never talked about.”

“I love the French very much, and I think they know that. I've been adopted here. They treat me as one of their own.”

“I think I did a lot of humorous films when I was young, and they were No. 1 films.”

“I think there is an extreme charm in the French, and actually it's their bolshiness that makes them such fun.”

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

“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.”