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 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
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
country falling-in-love people
If you fall in love with a country and its people, that makes any country warm to you.
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.
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.