Brigitte Bardot Quotes

I am leaving the town to the invaders: increasingly numerous, mediocre, dirty, badly behaved, shameless tourists.

I stopped making films to look after animals.

I am not finding pregnancy much of a joy. I am afraid of childbirth, but I am afraid I can't find a way of avoiding it.

If I upset some notions and went against established rules, that wasn't part of what I wanted to do. It wasn't my goal.

I really am a cat transformed into a woman.

I say what I think and I think what I say.

Nobody has any security in loving me.

I am greatly misunderstood by politically correct idiots.

Women get more unhappy the more they try to liberate themselves.

Unfortunately, I am not like a snail or a turtle, and I can't take my houses with me when I move.

I was just a cheap little starlet hardly acting at all in a very mediocre film.

I am astonished and surprised that someone could consider making a film about me without talking to me about it.

They may call me a sinner, but I am at peace with myself.

Vadim changed my mind about acting. Vadim was the only man who was certain I had something special to offer.

I am no mother, and I won't be one.

My parents gave me a strict upbringing, which at times has caused me to suffer distress but today I am grateful to them for it.

I am not an actress. I can only play me - on and off the screen.

My private life became public.

I have no private life at all. I am a hunted woman. I can't take a step without being questioned and surrounded.

People have already dirtied my name too much.

I have to live with both my selves as best I may.

Every age can be enchanting, provided you live within it.

When I love, I do it without counting. I give myself entirely. And each time, it is the grand love of my life.

I wanted to be myself. Only myself.

I am against marriage, and I don't give a fig for society.

I never get hung up on the past - the memories are too negative.

If only every man who sees my films did not get the impression he can make love to me, I would be a lot happier.

Champagne is the one thing that gives me zest when I am tired.

It is better to be Unfaithful, than Faithful without wanting to be.

A photograph can be an instant of life captured for eternity that will never cease looking back at you.

My soul is not my own any more. I cannot live like I want to. I am going to give up films.

We have to convince the people of Bucharest, who are dog lovers, to treat dogs like they treat their children and not just let them roam the streets.

What does it mean, being a woman?

Percentages are why I am rich.

People are forever finding something wrong with you.

I am a woman that defends animals, right, left, and in the centre. Animals aren't political.

I only want to protect animals from barbarous, cruel, inhuman and backward rituals.

No matter whether it's someone from the political left or right, we just need a voice to stand up and defend animal rights.

Vadim was both my teacher and my husband. I placed myself entirely in his hands.

I absolutely loathe luxury. It is the one thing I cannot stand.

I know very few Americans, though I like the way they think. They think big.

If people don't like me, I become very plain.

There is a certain dignity to being French.

I knew I had to be the best at something, otherwise I would be nothing. I knew I wanted the world to know about Brigitte Bardot.

No more hard work than look beautiful with eight in the morning until midnight.

You can be barefoot and have worries.

When you're thirty you're old enough to know better,but still young enough to go ahead and do it.

I can no longer walk. I can no longer swim. But I'm lucky when I see how animals suffer.

I am against the Islamisation of France.

Do you have to have a reason for loving?

Only idiots refuse to change their minds.

Swallows have disappeared, bees are dying out because of pesticides that should have been banned long ago - it's a scandal.

Fashion may not be a weapon of the woman but at least it gives her the ammunition.

I'm not an extremist, you know.

It is sad to grow old but nice to ripen.

I do not understand girls who imagine that something forbidden. You can prohibit someone, but did not imagine.

Among Muslims, I think there are some who are very good and some hoodlums, like everywhere.

I don't think when I make love.

Film-making was not at all what I had expected.

I gave my beauty and my youth to men. I am going to give my wisdom and experience to animals

The myth of Bardot is finished, but Brigitte is me.

I never force myself to dance or sing.

I have understood that the most important things are tenderness and kindness. I can't do without them.

I am 30, but there are things about me that are still 15.

Have you ever heard of a good marriage growing in front of the cameras?

Fame had brought me so much unhappiness.

There is a French proverb: To live happy, live hidden. Where can Brigitte Bardot hide?

Solitude scares me. It makes me think about love, death, and war. I need distraction from anxious, black thoughts.

I would like, before I die, to see the changes I've always fought for being made. If not, my life will have been worth nothing.

My mother wanted me to be friends only with children she considered socially suitable.

Men are beasts and even beasts don't behave as they do.

If I could do anything about the way people behave towards each other, I would, but since I can't, I'll stick to animals,

I am all right when I work. I am not superficial and I am not ungrateful.

I started out as a lousy actress and have remained one.

I tried to make myself as pretty as possible and even then I thought I was ugly. I found it madly difficult to go out, to show myself.

If this fame, which people call my lucky break, were to stop tomorrow, I shouldn't care.

China once again disgusts the world, portraying the image of a cruel, perverted people devoid of any feelings towards animals.

I know what sin is.

The page has turned. Cinema is finished for me.

I am shocking, impertinent and insolent that's how it is.

The world today doesn't please me.

My country, France, my homeland, my land is again invaded by an overpopulation of foreigners, especially Muslims.

Animals have never betrayed me. They are an easy prey, as I have been throughout my career. So we feel the same. I love them.

I leave before being left. I decide.

We have abolished the death penalty for humans, so why should it continue for animals?

Success is unpredictable and fragile.

I have been very happy, very rich, very beautiful, much adulated, very famous and very unhappy.

I can't do the same thing every night, the same gestures ... it's like putting on dirty panties every day.

I don't think I was a good comedian.

Was it me that Botticelli imagined?

I'm a girl from a good family who was very well brought up. One day I turned my back on it all and became a bohemian.

I really wanted to die at certain periods in my life.

The first time that I came to Cannes, I think it was in 1953, I was 18 and unknown.

I only live in the world of animal protection. I speak only of that. I think only of that. I am obsessed.

I was afraid of not living up to what people expected me to be.

I have found out that friendship is quite as important as love and it isn't any easier than love.

I never do anything by chance.

Films have never shown the kind of relationship that can exist between two women.

Death was like love, a romantic escape.

I have no regrets. If I wanted to keep acting, I would have never left the cinema.