Quotes by Jane Birkin

Jane Birkin

Any film I see at two o’clock in afternoon with my mother seems to cast a strange spell that means we both come out sobbing.

Mean

Mother

Two

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

Boring

Easy

Want

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.

Boys

League

Looks

I didn’t really think of myself as being a muse.

Muse

Thinking

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.

Fun

People

Wish

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.

Actors

Lucky

Teeth

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.

Home

Mirrors

Sad

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.

Misery

Taken

World

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.

Cameras

Clever

Morning

I only like boutiques.

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Bears

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Boys

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Cities

Clever

Country

Easy

Elderly

Exotic

Eye

Faces

Falling In Love

Fashion

Female

Fun

Giving

Hair

Home

Ignorant

Israel

Joy

Keep Smiling

Laughing

League

Looks

Lucky

Mean

Mirrors

Misery

Mistake

Morning

Mother

Muse

People

Reading

Sad

School

Seems

Smile

Taken

Teeth

Thanks

Thinking

Trying

Two

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Quotes by Jane Birkin

Jane Birkin

Any film I see at two o’clock in afternoon with my mother seems to cast a strange spell that means we both come out sobbing.

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

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.

I didn’t really think of myself as being a muse.

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.

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 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.

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.

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.

I only like boutiques.

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