English - Actress | December 14, 1946 -
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
TimeHateMeThinkBagEnough
I had a baby at 19 and was a grandmother by 39. Now, my children lend me their children to take them off to Brittany. It's divine. I'm quite exceptionally lucky. I've never had a week without having all three of my daughters on the telephone.
ChildrenMeBabyWeekThreeLucky
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.
GoodLunchEatingDawnInteresting
If you fall in love with a country and its people, that makes any country warm to you.
LovePeopleWarmYouFallCountry
I'd rather live on my own than live with a face that looks at me with the wrong eyes.
LiveEyesMeFaceWrongLooks
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.
MotherStrangeTwoSeeOutI See
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.
LoveMeLovedYoungNowPaint
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.
FamilyFunPeopleWishSeeingKnow
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.
EnoughGrindSometimesActorLucky
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.
HomeMirrorSadnessFaceSomeone
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.
LoveMyselfMeWorldOutBecause
I only like boutiques.
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