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
fun cat israel
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.
country falling-in-love people
If you fall in love with a country and its people, that makes any country warm to you.
boys league looks
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.
mistake laughing people
When I made mistakes, people used to laugh. I could have learnt better, but I've always liked to make people laugh.
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.
eye faces looks
I'd rather live on my own than live with a face that looks at me with the wrong eyes.
mother reading underwear
My mother was right: When you've got nothing left, all you can do is get into silk underwear and start reading Proust.
want boring easy
But who wants an easy life ? It's boring !
years keep-smiling just-keep-smiling
Keep smiling - it takes 10 years off!
mother mean two
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.
banging came family people rather seeing
I don't know why people keep banging on about the '60s. 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.
brown colour cover face laura mouth run sponge tiny wear
I colour my hair mousy brown and I wear makeup only on stage. I use Laura Mercier - something called Biscuit, I think. I run one tiny sponge over my face and cover the red blotches. If I've got some rouge, I'll bung it on my mouth and cheeks.
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.
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.