“A photograph can be an instant of life captured for eternity that will never cease looking back at you.”
― Brigitte Bardot
“Only idiots refuse to change their minds.”
― Brigitte Bardot
“Every age can be enchanting, provided you live within it.”
― Brigitte Bardot
“As for being a little bunny that never says a word, that is truly the opposite of me.”
― Brigitte Bardot
“When I love, I do it without counting. I give myself entirely. And each time, it is the grand love of my life.”
― Brigitte Bardot
“It is sad to grow old but nice to ripen.”
― Brigitte Bardot
“Fur is only of use to the animal that wears it.”
― Brigitte Bardot
“I have understood that the most important things are tenderness and kindness. I can’t do without them.”
― Brigitte Bardot
“They may call me a sinner, but I am at peace with myself.”
― Brigitte Bardot
“It is better to be unfaithful than to be faithful without wanting to be.”
― Brigitte Bardot
“What could be more beautiful than a dear old lady growing wise with age? Every age can be enchanting, provided you live within it.”
― Brigitte Bardot
“I left a world in which I was a queen to enter one in which I’m a human being.”
― Brigitte Bardot
“I live the life of a farmer. I don’t see how I could wear Lagerfeld’s designs while feeding my goats. I have respect for Lagerfeld as a man, but I would have so much more for him if he, in turn, respected animals. We do not live in the same world.”
― Brigitte Bardot
“I gave my beauty and my youth to men. I am going to give my wisdom and experience to animals.”
― Brigitte Bardot
“Do you have to have a reason for loving?”
― Brigitte Bardot
“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.”
― Brigitte Bardot
“Swallows have disappeared, bees are dying out because of pesticides that should have been banned long ago – it’s a scandal.”
― Brigitte Bardot
“My country, France, my homeland, my land is again invaded by an overpopulation of foreigners, especially Muslims.”
― Brigitte Bardot
“James Stewart was so kind and considerate and had such personal integrity.”
― Brigitte Bardot
“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.”
― Brigitte Bardot
“I have no private life at all. I am a hunted woman. I can’t take a step without being questioned and surrounded.”
― Brigitte Bardot
“I know very few Americans, though I like the way they think. They think big.”
― Brigitte Bardot
“I absolutely loathe luxury. It is the one thing I cannot stand.”
― Brigitte Bardot
“Films have never shown the kind of relationship that can exist between two women.”
― Brigitte Bardot
“I belong to no party, and I am militant for no one.”
― Brigitte Bardot
“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.”
― Brigitte Bardot
“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.”
― Brigitte Bardot
“French courts are backward and politically correct, which is the height of stupidity.”
― Brigitte Bardot
“People are forever finding something wrong with you.”
― Brigitte Bardot
“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.”
― Brigitte Bardot
“No matter whether it’s someone from the political left or right, we just need a voice to stand up and defend animal rights.”
― Brigitte Bardot
“I say what I think and I think what I say.”
― Brigitte Bardot
“I wasn’t scandalous – I didn’t want to be.”
― Brigitte Bardot
“I am leaving the town to the invaders: increasingly numerous, mediocre, dirty, badly behaved, shameless tourists.”
― Brigitte Bardot
“I only want to protect animals from barbarous, cruel, inhuman and backward rituals.”
― Brigitte Bardot
“I don’t have the time or the desire to gaze at my navel.”
― Brigitte Bardot
“It’s better to be unfaithful than faithful without wanting to be.”
― Brigitte Bardot
“I mourn the fact that my beautiful country has deteriorated in every way.”
― Brigitte Bardot
“The world today doesn’t please me.”
― Brigitte Bardot
“Men are beasts and even beasts don’t behave as they do.”
― Brigitte Bardot
“I started out as a lousy actress and have remained one.”
― Brigitte Bardot
“I don’t think when I make love.”
― Brigitte Bardot
“I have been very happy, very rich, very beautiful, much adulated, very famous and very unhappy.”
― Brigitte Bardot
“I can’t do the same thing every night, the same gestures… it’s like putting on dirty panties every day.”
― Brigitte Bardot
“Fame had brought me so much unhappiness.”
― Brigitte Bardot
“Film-making was not at all what I had expected.”
― Brigitte Bardot
“Have you ever heard of a good marriage growing in front of the cameras?”
― Brigitte Bardot
“I am 30, but there are things about me that are still 15.”
― Brigitte Bardot
“I am against marriage, and I don’t give a fig for society.”
― Brigitte Bardot
“I am all right when I work. I am not superficial and I am not ungrateful.”
― Brigitte Bardot
“I am no mother, and I won’t be one.”
― Brigitte Bardot
“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.”
― Brigitte Bardot
“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.”
― Brigitte Bardot
“I have not always loved wisely, but I was young.”
― Brigitte Bardot
“I have to live with both my selves as best I may.”
― Brigitte Bardot
“I know what sin is.”
― Brigitte Bardot
“I never do anything by chance.”
― Brigitte Bardot
“I was just a cheap little starlet hardly acting at all in a very mediocre film.”
― Brigitte Bardot
“If I go to a restaurant, other people stare. The meal is ruined.”
― Brigitte Bardot
“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.”
― Brigitte Bardot
“If this fame, which people call my lucky break, were to stop tomorrow, I shouldn’t care.”
― Brigitte Bardot
“My soul is not my own any more. I cannot live like I want to. I am going to give up films.”
― Brigitte Bardot
“Percentages are why I am rich.”
― Brigitte Bardot
“Vadim changed my mind about acting. Vadim was the only man who was certain I had something special to offer.”
― Brigitte Bardot
“Vadim was both my teacher and my husband. I placed myself entirely in his hands.”
― Brigitte Bardot
“What does it mean, being a woman?”
― Brigitte Bardot
“I leave before being left. I decide.”
― Brigitte Bardot
“Women get more unhappy the more they try to liberate themselves.”
― Brigitte Bardot
“I am astonished and surprised that someone could consider making a film about me without talking to me about it.”
― Brigitte Bardot
“Nobody has any security in loving me.”
― Brigitte Bardot
“My mother wanted me to be friends only with children she considered socially suitable.”
― Brigitte Bardot
“I am not an actress. I can only play me – on and off the screen.”
― Brigitte Bardot
“I am greatly misunderstood by politically correct idiots.”
― Brigitte Bardot
“We have abolished the death penalty for humans, so why should it continue for animals?”
― Brigitte Bardot
“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.”
― Brigitte Bardot
“In a democracy one must have the right to express oneself and that’s what I do, even if it displeases.”
― Brigitte Bardot
“I really wanted to die at certain periods in my life.”
― Brigitte Bardot
“Death was like love, a romantic escape.”
― Brigitte Bardot
“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.”
― Brigitte Bardot
“I don’t think I was a good comedian.”
― Brigitte Bardot
“I wanted to be myself. Only myself.”
― Brigitte Bardot
“I never get hung up on the past – the memories are too negative.”
― Brigitte Bardot
“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.”
― Brigitte Bardot
“I was afraid of not living up to what people expected me to be.”
― Brigitte Bardot
“I can no longer walk. I can no longer swim. But I’m lucky when I see how animals suffer.”
― Brigitte Bardot
“I am typically French.”
― Brigitte Bardot
“I never left France for Hollywood nor stashed my money in Switzerland.”
― Brigitte Bardot
“There is a certain dignity to being French.”
― Brigitte Bardot
“I have the courage of my convictions.”
― Brigitte Bardot
“I regret nothing.”
― Brigitte Bardot
“I am really not interested in the cinema.”
― Brigitte Bardot
“China once again disgusts the world, portraying the image of a cruel, perverted people devoid of any feelings towards animals.”
― Brigitte Bardot
“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.”
― Brigitte Bardot
“I only live in the world of animal protection. I speak only of that. I think only of that. I am obsessed.”
― Brigitte Bardot
“I stopped making films to look after animals.”
― Brigitte Bardot
“I’m not an extremist, you know.”
― Brigitte Bardot
“Now, if there was one woman in the world who didn’t need publicity, who always had too much publicity, it was me.”
― Brigitte Bardot
“I am against the Islamisation of France.”
― Brigitte Bardot
“I never knowingly wanted to hurt anybody.”
― Brigitte Bardot
“Among Muslims, I think there are some who are very good and some hoodlums, like everywhere.”
― Brigitte Bardot
“You can be barefoot and have worries.”
― Brigitte Bardot
“Politics disgusts me.”
― Brigitte Bardot
“I am shocking, impertinent and insolent that’s how it is.”
― Brigitte Bardot
“My wild and free side unsettled some, and unwedged others.”
― Brigitte Bardot
“My private life became public.”
― Brigitte Bardot
“People have already dirtied my name too much.”
― Brigitte Bardot
“It’s the decomposition that gets me. You spend your whole life looking after your body. And then you rot away.”
― Brigitte Bardot
“Fur is not luxury: it is an industry of death and suffering.”
― Brigitte Bardot
“We must boycott fur coats as well as all the accessories.”
― Brigitte Bardot
“I don’t feel old or used up, and I don’t have time to waste thinking about aging, because I live only for my cause.”
― Brigitte Bardot
“All of my causes, including the most radical, are motivated by the defense of animals.”
― Brigitte Bardot
“My favourite animals are dogs.”
― Brigitte Bardot
“I adore my houses – they’re my refuge – but I detest more and more Saint-Tropez where it’s impossible to live: invaded by tourists, social evenings, all of which I avoid and which terrorises me.”
― Brigitte Bardot
“Yes, I’ve often been threatened by hunters, by horsemeat butchers, and seal murderers… I am still alive!”
― Brigitte Bardot
“I am a native Frenchwoman and proud of it.”
― Brigitte Bardot
“I never had trouble saying what I have to say.”
― Brigitte Bardot
“A film about my life? But I am not dead.”
― Brigitte Bardot
“I have a gruff character.”
― Brigitte Bardot
“I’m too impatient.”
― Brigitte Bardot
“I don’t see how a socialist government can tolerate hunting on horseback. The people who do this are snobs; they’re very well-to-do.”
― Brigitte Bardot
“I’m not made to be a mother.”
― Brigitte Bardot
“The woman who made those movies, that’s not me. She’s someone else.”
― Brigitte Bardot
“I know it’s horrible to have to admit that, but I’m not adult enough to take care of a child.”
― Brigitte Bardot
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