Jane Birkin Quotes

I didn't get old on purpose, it just happened. If you're lucky, it could happen to you.

Now, I don't actually know the exact cut-off age where beautiful ceases and 'must have-once-been-beautiful' begins. It's true it's not forty-five. I can still get attention when I try really hard, even if it's greatly reduced.

In my 40s, I expect to finally reap the average-looking girl's revenge. I've entered the stage of life where you don't need to be beautiful; simply by being well-preserved and not obese, I would now pass for pretty.

We're not getting any younger.

We all know now that people can look good for their age. It isn't so extraordinary, I don't know why people go on about it so much.

I don't think I've aged gracefully.

I've been playing old parts forever. I play 93 quite often. When you've done it more than once, you take the hint. I think it's a great burden if you're one of those fantastic stars who've always been beautiful; then I think it's hard.

That whole sex symbol thing I never took seriously to begin with. Thank goodness, or I'd be suffering right now because it's out of your hands what happens to you with age.

I'm partly obsessed by aging gracefully.

I'm not getting any younger. You're not getting any younger, so yeah. You age.

Here in L.A. the standard of beauty is kind of ridiculous. I want to be doing this when I'm in my fifties and sixties and this isn't what I'm going to look like.

I wasn't afraid of getting old, because I was never a great beauty.

If you were a pretty boy pop singer, it would wreck you, growing older.

Age is not our fault.

I've developed into quite a swan. I'm one of those people that will probably look better and better as I get older until I drop dead of beauty.

I was beautiful. Now, because I am old, I take no shame in so saying.

The thing about praising beauty is that good looks are an unforgiving task- master, a Forth Bridge of a maintenance job. The passing years present their accounts. Younger models become available.

Aging in Hollywood sucks. There's always so much pressure to look way younger than you are, and everyone's watching! I'd like to embrace getting older, because it's kind of inevitable. The different, wiser me, to be at peace with how I look and I'm supposed to look - it's a work in progress.

Every time an article is written about me or any of my contemporaries who's had the fortune and discipline to look good at a certain age, I am struck by the tone of astonishment, and the certainty that something is being done secretively to beat the devil.

Yeah, if anyone tries to tell you 60 is the new 40... don't believe them.

Yeah, tons... fillers and botox and I've definitely made some mistakes but it's hard to watch yourself get older on television.

Vanity is becoming a nuisance, I can see why women give it up, eventually. But I'm not ready for that yet.

Nothing is more ridiculous in old people that were once good-looking, than to forget that they are not so still.

Most women are not as young as they are painted.

I look fine. I've had no surgery apart from an operation I had decades ago to remove the fat under my eyes. My mum looked 30 when she was 60, so I guess I owe it all to genes and hair dye.