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"I can't believe what's happening visually, in front of my eyes."

"I remember watching Jodie Foster in Contact, and that kind of opened my eyes."

"I think the eyes flirt most. There are so many ways to use them."

"You'll never be disappointed if you always keep an eye on uncharted territory, where you'll be challenged and growing and having fun."
Explore more quotes by Jane Birkin

"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."

"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."

"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."

"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."

"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."

"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."

"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."

"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."
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