Brigitte bardot quotes

I wanted to be myself. Only myself.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

Unfortunately these are not isolated incidents, and the people of Reunion are the first to be horrified by this despicable barbarity which mars the image of their island.

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

I am greatly misunderstood by politically correct idiots.

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.

Percentages are why I am rich.

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

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

I stopped making films to look after animals.

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

It's the decomposition that gets me. You spend your whole life looking after your body. And then you rot away.

I am against the Islamisation of France!

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

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.

Death was like love, a romantic escape.

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

Was it me that Botticelli imagined?

Do you have to have a reason for loving?

It is better to be wrong than correct with no desire to be.

I really am a cat transformed into a woman.

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

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

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

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.

I had lots of opportunities to survive this [popularity] madness. Madame de Staël said, "Glory is the bright mourning of happiness."

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

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

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.

What could be more beautiful than a dear old lady growing wise with age? Every age can be enchanting, provided you live within it.

I have not always loved wisely, but I was young.

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 have never put a gun to anyone's head to obligate him to marry me.

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

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

I think animals help us live; they've helped me live. It was only when I began to devote myself to protecting animals that I blossomed completely. Taking care of them, looking out for them, has given my life true meaning, a meaning I hope future generations can experience.

My private life became public.

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

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.

I leave before being left. I decide.

It is sad to grow old but nice to ripen.

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

The page has turned. Cinema is finished for me.

Only idiots refuse to change their minds.

The world today doesn't please me.

Romania will not be able to evolve if it continues to take cruel decisions against sensitive creatures, which are under the protection of European law.

People have already dirtied my name too much.

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

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

I never force myself to dance or sing.

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

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

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

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

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

I don't think I was a good comedian.

Success is unpredictable and fragile.

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

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.

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

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

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

James Stewart was so kind and considerate and had such personal integrity.

You can be barefoot and have worries.

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

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

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

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

On the outside one is a star. But in reality, one is completely alone, doubting everything. To experience this loneliness of soul is the hardest thing in the world.

I am really not interested in the cinema.

It is better to be unfaithful than to be faithful without wanting to be.

I never left France for Hollywood nor stashed my money in Switzerland.

There is a certain dignity to being French.

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

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

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

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

Now, if there was one woman in the world who didn't need publicity, who always had too much publicity, it was me.

Fame had brought me so much unhappiness.

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

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

In a democracy one must have the right to express oneself and that's what I do, even if it displeases.

[Roger] Vadim became famous worldwide as a director, and I as an actress, but the other side of the coin was terrible. My life was totally turned upside down. I was followed, spied upon, adored, insulted. My private life became public.

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

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

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

I didn't throw myself off my balcony only because I knew people would photograph me lying dead.

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

My wild and free side unsettled some, and unwedged others.

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

What does it mean, being a woman?

I never do anything by chance.

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

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.

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

Peanut butter is pâté for children.

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

If I go to a restaurant, other people stare. The meal is ruined.

I am really not interested in the cinema. I loathed it when I started six years ago, and I don't enjoy it even now.

I really wanted to die at certain periods in my life. Death was like love, a romantic escape. I took pills because I didn't want to throw myself off my balcony and know people would photograph me lying dead below

I don't think when I make love.

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

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

Nobody has any security in loving me.

I have the courage of my convictions.

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

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

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

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

Human cruelty knows no limits and that one needs immense courage and a will of iron to help others understand that animals are made of flesh and blood like us, that they suffer the same pains as us, that they deserve the same respect as us and that their continuous slaughter should not be part of human entertainment.

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.

People are forever finding something wrong with you.