Jane Birkin Quotes

How sick one gets of being 'good', how much I should respect myself if I could burst out and make everyone wretched for twenty-four hours; embody selfishness.

Many a man gets weary of clamping down on his rough impulses, which if given occasional release would encourage the living of life with salt in it, in place of dust.

I've struggled so hard to reign in my temper because it actually terrifies me.

Sometimes it takes all my resolution and power of self-control to refrain from butting my head against the wall. I want to howl and foam at the mouth but I daren't.

I'm not a table-flipper.

I recognize a lot of the things I'm going through. Like, I lose my temper a lot and I become unhinged and kind of hysterical.

Anger, if not restrained, is frequently more hurtful to us than the injury that provokes it.

Freedom is not procured by a full enjoyment of what is desired, but by controlling the desire.

So much in L.A. is waiting. It's so irritating. That's what's good about stand-up. You can go away, and you don't have to sit and wait by your phone. But it is very frustrating.

It's all right letting yourself go, as long as you can get yourself back.

Man is free; yet we must not suppose that he is at liberty to do everything he pleases, for he becomes a slave the moment he allows his actions to be ruled by passion.

Patience is the ability to idle your motor when you feel like stripping your gears.

Vocally, I'm definitely pushing out more. That feels good. It's very freeing. I've always been very private and consciously private. Now it's kinda like, 'Who cares.' I'm gonna be free and gonna be me. I feel good.

It is not good to be too free. It is not good to have everything one wants.

Moderation is never something I've been good at.

When you're playing somebody who's going through a lot - frustration and hardship - you're just purging all your emotions, and it feels really good to do that.

Where would we be without inhibitions? They're quite useful things when you look at some of the things humans do if they lose them.

I try not to get too far ahead of myself.

The act of writing a song involves a degree of letting go of yourself, and that's very much being a child.

I have to throw off the burden and the pressure.

For me, every single thing I do seems to be about the process of letting go because that's what I so desperately need to do with so many things: with fear, with what people think of me, and all these things I've worried about my whole life.

I have nothing but regret that I cannot continue to behave the way I behaved all my life, and I can't wait for a chance to behave immoderately again.

The urge to shout filthy words at the top of his voice was as strong as ever.

I am tempted to keep the car in drive, And leave it all behind...

The main thing I feel is a sense of relief. That I can give up this game. That the question of whether I can succeed in this venture has been answered, even if that answer is a resounding no. That if desperate times call for desperate measures, I am free to act as desperately as I want.