Jane Birkin Quotes

The best characters are the ones that somehow manage to be both attractive and repulsive at the same time. If you do that, you're at the center of the universe - if you can find characters who are more ambiguous and can raise more questions than answers.

Everyone is so weird in L.A. that if you're somewhat normal, it's exotic.

I want good and different parts, different from what I've done.

Once in a while, I try to sneak in something less known anyway.

I'm looking for the unexpected. I'm looking for things I've never seen before.

I always enjoyed being made uneasy, and I was into anything that was off-putting. I can't exactly put my finger on why, but it always seemed more exciting than those things that made you feel comfortable.

I do not want to do a role which is similar to the previous one or the concept and the genre.

I am kind of a curiosity in England.

I always respond to characters who have depth. I'm always interested in those people. They're the ones who surprise you.

I want people to say that I'm something new, something different. Something they've never seen before.

'Last Man' is different from anything I've ever seen or done.

For sure, I'm an acquired taste. People who've had that acquisition, who've acquired it, are quite surprised when they see me.

I know my theories and findings are hard for you to accept because they are so original and extraordinary.

People that I'm most attracted to, they're not living by any sort of rules. They're the kind of people with stories to tell.

The things that stand out are often the oddities.

I like to do things that are surprising and different.

I've always been attracted to darkness.

I would still describe China as a vast, invigorating puzzle that will never make sense to my western upbringing.

Stuff that's truly off-trail was what appealed to 'Weird Tales' editors.

It is not new and it is not order.

Her beauty was not in itself quite incomparable, we are told...but conversation with her had an irresistible charm. Her presence, combined with the persuasiveness of her discourse and the character which was somehow diffused about her behavior towards others, had something stimulating about it …. she could readily turn to whatever language she pleased, so that in her interviews with barbarians she seldom had need of an interpreter, but mostly made her replies unaided, whether the men were Ethiopians, Hebrews, Arabians, Syrians, Medes, or Persians.

I was a hard fit at a young age. I didn't make sense as an ingenue or a leading love-interest lady.

I am that weirdo that chooses the difficult route down the side of the street.

I'm tired of someone being called 'quirky' because they tripped or got a stain on their shirt. It's like a beautiful blonde lady who's quirky because she has bedhead, or she's quirky because she sometimes says the wrong, cute thing. I like it when women are quirky as human beings.

People find it difficult to accept something that is sincere and unique.