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
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.
lucky actors thumbs
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.
school trying bears
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.
taken world misery
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.
wife trying world
I remember being married to John Barry and trying to be the best wife in the world.
boys hair ignorant
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.
I only like boutiques.
giving joy female
I understand the joy of having a female actress like Charlotte [Gainsbourg] and watching her give everything, and be able to capture it.
fun people wish
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
thinking thanks should
One of the things I've discovered, thanks to the Japanese, is that you should enjoy yourself. In the old days, I used to think: 'Oh, never be satisfied, never admit to being happy.' But there's no curse in being happy.
people exotic seems
People always like things that seem exotic.
morning clever rehearsal
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.
thinking muse
I didn't really think of myself as being a muse.
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.