Jane Birkin
Jane Birkin
Jane Mallory Birkin, OBE is an English actress and singer based in France. She is perhaps best known for her relationship with Serge Gainsbourg in the 1970s and being the namesake of the popular Hermès Birkin bag. In recent years she has written her own album, directed a film and become an outspoken proponent of democracy in Myanmar...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionMovie Actress
Date of Birth14 December 1946
years keep-smiling just-keep-smiling
Keep smiling - it takes 10 years off!
want boring easy
But who wants an easy life ? It's boring !
fashion care cocktails
My look is a cocktail. I'm not as nicely turned out as the french, but I don't care like the English.
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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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When I made mistakes, people used to laugh. I could have learnt better, but I've always liked to make people laugh.
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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. I always hang things on my bags because I don't like them looking like everyone else's.
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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.
sad home mirrors
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.
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I didn't really think of myself as being a muse.
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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
home elderly cities
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.
I only like boutiques.
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I understand the joy of having a female actress like Charlotte [Gainsbourg] and watching her give everything, and be able to capture it.
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Robert Louis Stevenson... I'm focusing on the late short stories that I was ignorant of. I always thought he was a boys' author, but he's not at all.