Top 47 Quotes by Jane Birkin

I think it's always good to read local authors or relevant books. In Egypt, I studied hieroglyphics and read everything about the mummies.

Keep smiling - it takes 10 years off!

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.

My mother was right: When you've got nothing left, all you can do is get into silk underwear and start reading Proust.

I think there is an extreme charm in the French, and actually it's their bolshiness that makes them such fun.

I don't like getting older, but there's nothing I can do. Hitting 60 wasn't great, but I think I was lucky in not being that beautiful; it can be really cruel on people who have been stunning.

Big Ben... hearing the chimes makes me feel at home.

I'd rather live on my own than live with a face that looks at me with the wrong eyes.

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.

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.