71 Quotes by Jane Birkin

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

Keep smiling – it takes 10 years off!

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

My look is a cocktail. I’m not as nicely turned out as the french, but I don’t care like the English.

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

When I made mistakes, people used to laugh. I could have learnt better, but I’ve always liked to make people laugh.

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 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.

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.