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I'd rather live on my own tha...

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

Jane Birkin 39 quotes

I don't know why people keep ...

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.

Jane Birkin 39 quotes

There's no fun in a bag if it...

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.

Jane Birkin 39 quotes

Everything I wear doesnt put ...

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.

Jane Birkin 39 quotes

I loved having a crew. I love...

I loved having a crew. I loved being the person who woke at six in the morning and knew where to put the camera. I loved watching the actresses cry, and to know that if you were clever and didn't do too many rehearsals, that it just came that way.

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When I made mistakes, people ...

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

Jane Birkin 39 quotes

I understand the joy of havin...

I understand the joy of having a female actress like Charlotte [Gainsbourg] and watching her give everything, and be able to capture it.

Jane Birkin 39 quotes

I grind my teeth and keep my ...

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.

Jane Birkin 39 quotes

When I arrived in France aged...

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

Jane Birkin 39 quotes

I had a baby at 19 and was a ...

I had a baby at 19 and was a grandmother by 39. Now, my children lend me their children to take them off to Brittany. It's divine. I'm quite exceptionally lucky. I've never had a week without having all three of my daughters on the telephone.

Jane Birkin 39 quotes

It's usually a jolly good tri...

It's usually a jolly good trick to pick up a local tour guide. They can tell you all the anecdotes that make a place interesting. I'm one for rushing off to museums at the crack of dawn, eating fabulous things on terraces for lunch, and enjoying long dinners on balmy evenings.

Jane Birkin 39 quotes

I think it's always good to r...

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

Jane Birkin 39 quotes

I love Dickens because it mak...

I love Dickens because it makes me chuckle to myself so. He has taken me to another world and out of so many earthly miseries.

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I don't like getting older, b...

I don't like getting older, but there's nothing I can do. Hitting 60 wasn't great, but I think I was lucky in not being that beautiful; it can be really cruel on people who have been stunning.

Jane Birkin 39 quotes

I have never written a book a...

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.

Jane Birkin 39 quotes

My mother was right: When you...

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

Jane Birkin 39 quotes

My first husband, John Barry,...

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 ba...

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.

Jane Birkin 39 quotes

If I were mayor, I'd invite e...

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.

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Jacques Doillon wanted me to ...

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.

Jane Birkin 39 quotes

Добрые, щедрые, великодушные: 6 советских актеров, которые были всеобщими любимчиками

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Советских актёров часто ставят в пример как образец духовной силы, национальной гордости и внутренней красоты. Они стали символами эпохи, носителями культуры и нравственности. Но, как известно, за кул...

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Кира Найтли на страницах журнала к выходу фильма «Пиджак», 2005. Следы динозавра, раскопанные в русле реки Палакси. Техас. США. 1952г. Самая большая женщина рядом с самым маленьким мужчиной, 1922 год....