Jane Birkin Quotes

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Jane Birkin

Profession : Actress

Birth : December 14, 1946

I have never written a book about my life, despite being offered purses of gold. I made 'Boxes' because I wanted to make a sincere depiction of a daughter who has lost her father, or the jealousy one can feel towards a daughter who has become more beautiful than you and whose stepfather starts to take her shopping.

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

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A Birkin bag is a very good rain hat; just put everything else in a plastic bag.

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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.

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

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Keep smiling - it takes 10 years off!

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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.

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I think it's always good to read local authors or relevant books. In Egypt, I studied hieroglyphics and read everything about the mummies.

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My first husband, John Barry, was a composer. I couldn't believe that this sophisticated, talented genius chose me and not any of the other girls. I was so flattered, so excited, so in love with him. Of course, my parents were horrified, as he'd been married once and had a daughter with the au pair girl.

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I never have more than one bag at a time. I think one is already quite enough. Also, I hate changing bags, so I never have the thing of having ten bags. Any bag that's with me will take the same course as I will. It will take the same airplanes and will be squashed in the same way and will be used as a cushion in the airports.

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

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

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When I arrived in France aged 20, I marched against the death penalty, which was an unpopular thing to protest against at the time.

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I use Elizabeth Arden Eight Hour Cream, £12, on my lips, and my arms if they're sunburned. I'm past caring that sunbathing is dangerous.

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I only like boutiques.

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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.

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Jacques Doillon wanted me to be in his film, 'La Fille Prodigue,' and there I was, expecting, for some reason, this great bearded man, when a splendid looking red-Indian style man appeared at my door. I said no to his film because I knew that if I said yes, I would run off with him.

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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.

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

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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