Brigitte Bardot Quotes

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

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.

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

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

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

I never do anything by chance.

I stopped making films to look after animals.

I am really not interested in the cinema.

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

I have the courage of my convictions.

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

You can be barefoot and have worries.

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

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

I really am a cat transformed into a woman.

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

I know what sin is.

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

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

Death was like love, a romantic escape.

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

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

[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 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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

I never force myself to dance or sing.

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

The world today doesn't please me.

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

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

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

Only idiots refuse to change their minds.

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

What does it mean, being a woman?

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

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 when I make love.

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

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

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

I am against the Islamisation of France.

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 wanted to be myself. Only myself.

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

I don't think I was a good comedian.

I'm not an extremist, you know.

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

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

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

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

Human cruelty knows no limits and 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.

Fame had brought me so much unhappiness.

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.

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

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

Nobody has any security in loving me.

Percentages are why I am rich.

There is a certain dignity to being French.

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

I never knowingly wanted to hurt anybody.

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

The page has turned. Cinema is finished for me.

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

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