Nothing has ever touched on what fun childhood was. Summer holidays were bliss. We made home movies, with real stories in them. My father had such charm and charisma, and made everything so funny. Jane Birkin Read Quote
My first husband, John Barry, was a composer. I couldn’t believe that this sophisticated, talented genius chose me and not any of the other girls. I was so flattered, so excited, so in love with him. Of course, my parents were horrified, as he’d been married once and had a daughter with the au pair girl. Jane Birkin Read Quote
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. Jane Birkin Read Quote
I have never written a book about my life, despite being offered purses of gold. I made ‘Boxes’ because I wanted to make a sincere depiction of a daughter who has lost her father, or the jealousy one can feel towards a daughter who has become more beautiful than you and whose stepfather starts to take her shopping. Jane Birkin Read Quote
I think it’s always good to read local authors or relevant books. In Egypt, I studied hieroglyphics and read everything about the mummies. Jane Birkin Read Quote
I never have more than one bag at a time. I think one is already quite enough. Also, I hate changing bags, so I never have the thing of having ten bags. Any bag that’s with me will take the same course as I will. It will take the same airplanes and will be squashed in the same way and will be used as a cushion in the airports. Jane Birkin Read Quote
I love the French very much, and I think they know that. I’ve been adopted here. They treat me as one of their own. Jane Birkin Read Quote
Without my specs on, I think I look really great; then I put them on, and I scream. But at 62, I still think less is better. I use Clarins foundation, but I don’t put it everywhere – I hate that covered look – so just on the sides of my nose where the veins have gone bang. Jane Birkin Read Quote
When I arrived in France aged 20, I marched against the death penalty, which was an unpopular thing to protest against at the time. Jane Birkin Read Quote
My mother was right: When you’ve got nothing left, all you can do is get into silk underwear and start reading Proust. Jane Birkin Read Quote
