I have to be careful not to get a paunch – I’m so skinny that if I put any weight anywhere, it’d be there, and I don’t like a bulge. I wouldn’t mind if it went on my bosom, but it doesn’t. Jane Birkin Read Quote
I can’t be the only person in the world to have three different husbands, and yet those relationships are never talked about. Jane Birkin Read Quote
At school, I used to hear, ‘You’re a half-caste.’ They’d laugh at my figure and say, ‘Are you a boy or a girl?’ Jane Birkin Read Quote
I think I did a lot of humorous films when I was young, and they were No. 1 films. Jane Birkin Read Quote
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. Jane Birkin Read Quote
My father was a painter, so I was encouraged to take a sketchbook everywhere. Cameras are perishable, but I still have tonnes of sketchbooks from all the trips I’ve ever been on. It gets you by when you don’t know what to give people as a gift; drawings are good souvenirs. Jane Birkin Read Quote
It’s usually a jolly good trick to pick up a local tour guide. They can tell you all the anecdotes that make a place interesting. I’m one for rushing off to museums at the crack of dawn, eating fabulous things on terraces for lunch, and enjoying long dinners on balmy evenings. Jane Birkin Read Quote
I don’t much enjoy travelling, but I have always longed to take a slow train to Russia. I’d like to go alone – like writers do – with only a pencil and piece of paper as company. I’d take my sketchbook and note down all the wonderful details of other travellers. Jane Birkin Read Quote
I put some red stuff on my mouth and cheeks so I look healthy – any old red lip pencil and a lip colour from Dr. Hauschka in a crushed berry tone. I never put anything on my eyes, or I look like Joan Crawford. Jane Birkin Read Quote
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. Jane Birkin Read Quote
