#me

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

#any #both #cast #clock #come

Nature is just enough; but men and women must comprehend and accept her suggestions. ↗

— Antoinette Brown Blackwell

#comprehend #enough #her #just #men

He painted me when I was young because he was in love with me, but now that he has loved me he doesn't paint me anymore. ↗

— Jane Birkin

#because #i #love #loved #me

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. ↗

— Jane Birkin

#banging #came #conventional #different #different people

I grind my teeth and keep my thumbs in so tight that I've dislocated them, just not to scream. Sometimes as an actor one is lucky enough to be asked to scream. ↗

— Jane Birkin

#asked #dislocated #enough #grind #i

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. ↗

— Jane Birkin

#because #chuckle #dickens #earthly #i

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

— Jane Birkin

#face #i #live #looks #me

In fact, almost every job you get somebody watching you. ↗

— Jack Vance

#every #fact #get #in fact #job

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. ↗

— Jane Birkin

#boat #city #elderly #everyone #free

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. ↗

— Jane Birkin

#bear #between #carriages #good #i