Brigitte Bardot Quotes

Yes, I've kissed a lot of guys. I like to kiss, but that's it. I don't go home with anyone. I sleep with my animals, like my baby monkey, Brigitte Bardot. ~ Paris Hilton

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

The world today doesn't please me. ~ 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

Brigitte Bardot was one of the first women to be really modern and treat men like love objects, buying them and discarding them. I like that. ~ Andy Warhol

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

I never do anything by chance. ~ Brigitte Bardot

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

I don't think I was a good comedian. ~ Brigitte Bardot

I am really not interested in the cinema. ~ 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 do not understand girls who imagine that something forbidden. You can prohibit someone, but did not imagine. ~ Brigitte Bardot

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

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. ~ Brigitte Bardot

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

You can be barefoot and have worries. ~ Brigitte Bardot

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

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

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

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

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

I have never put a gun to anyone's head to obligate him to marry me. ~ Brigitte Bardot

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

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

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

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

I was the Kate Moss of my day, atypical of what the public wanted, which was Brigitte Bardot. I was always tall, skinny and angular. But now, society has bought 55 years of my marketing 'Carmen,' and I'm considered beautiful. I hope that empowers older women. ~ Carmen Dell'Orefice

[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. ~ Brigitte Bardot

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

There is a certain dignity to being French. ~ Brigitte Bardot

I wanted to be myself. Only myself. ~ Brigitte Bardot

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

Nobody has any security in loving me. ~ Brigitte Bardot

My style icons would be people like Brigitte Bardot and old Hollywood actresses who always look so stunning, cool and chic. I like classic and timeless looks. ~ Jessica Brown Findlay

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

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

I say what I think and I think what I say. ~ Brigitte Bardot

I really am a cat transformed into a woman. ~ Brigitte Bardot

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

Fame had brought me so much unhappiness. ~ Brigitte Bardot

She's the only woman I've ever had a sexual fantasy about. With me, looks come first, and she's everything a woman should be. She's blonde and beautiful, she's got the most incredible legs - etcetera, etcetera. And she's French as well. (on Brigitte Bardot) ~ Rod Stewart

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

I have the courage of my convictions. ~ Brigitte Bardot

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

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

I never knowingly wanted to hurt anybody. ~ Brigitte Bardot

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

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

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

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

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

My wild and free side unsettled some, and unwedged others. ~ Brigitte Bardot

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

There's something heroic in a woman–-Brigitte Bardot, Anita Ekberg, Marianne Faithfull–-who takes great beauty, smokes it down to the filter and grinds it out under her sole. ~ Farran Smith Nehme

I don't think when I make love. ~ Brigitte Bardot

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

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

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

The new acts' major influences were movies and their curvy queens Brigitte Bardot and Marilyn Monroe. With their big blonde hair, ample breasts, and highly fertile hips, these bombshells inspired women everywhere to exxagerate their own voluptuousness. ~ Dita Von Teese

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

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

What does it mean, being a woman? ~ Brigitte Bardot

The page has turned. Cinema is finished for me. ~ Brigitte Bardot

Percentages are why I am rich. ~ 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

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. ~ 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

I know what sin is. ~ Brigitte Bardot

I'd always tell my mom, 'I want to be famous like Claudia Schiffer or Brigitte Bardot.' ~ Charlotte McKinney

I am all right when I work. I am not superficial and I am not ungrateful. ~ Brigitte Bardot

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

I stopped making films to look after animals. ~ Brigitte Bardot

As for Aliki - if you were to stand in the middle of Rome and say the name Sophia Loren, or Paris and say the name Catherine Deneuve or Brigitte Bardot, or L.A. and the name Marilyn Monroe, it's like standing in Athens, or anywhere in wide-flung Greece, and saying Aliki Vougiouklaki. A huge star - and so little known elsewhere in the world. ~ Ali Smith

I never force myself to dance or sing. ~ Brigitte Bardot

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, ~ Brigitte Bardot

Only idiots refuse to change their minds. ~ Brigitte Bardot

I am against the Islamisation of France. ~ 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'm not an extremist, you know. ~ Brigitte Bardot

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

Women get more unhappy the more they try to liberate themselves. ~ Brigitte Bardot

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

I like all the old-fashioned icons. My friends are artists, so they make me up to look like certain people. I am more inspired by people like Jane Fonda or Brigitte Bardot - people who did something as activists. ~ Pamela Anderson

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

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

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

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

Death was like love, a romantic escape. ~ Brigitte Bardot

Anyone who disagrees with radical Islamic propaganda is being attacked in the media, on college campuses, and at rallies countering events that promote the Islamic cause ~ Brigitte Gabriel

The number of theatres that regularly played art films (defined as foreign language films and English language films produced abroad without American financing) increased from around one hundred in 1950 to close to 700 by the 1960s. Foreign film distribution in the United States was originally handled by dozens of small independent outfits, but when Brigitte Bardot's And God Created...Woman broke box-office records in 1956, Hollywood took over. In search of foreign pictures with commercial ingredients, the majors absorbed the most talented foreign film-makers with offers of total financing and promises of distribution in the lucrative US market. ~ Tino Balio

I do expose my body, but only because I think people should have something nice to look at. ~ Brigitte Nielsen

Where is the outrage of the Muslim community? Why aren't the imams of every mosque holding press conferences, and inviting the media to tell the American public, 'We are Americans first. Any enemy of America is our enemy. We will work to find, stop, arrest, turn in, and condemn anyone in our community who aspires to radicalize our religion and harm our country'? ~ Brigitte Gabriel

This address book was a snapshot of her world in 1951: layers of friends and acquaintances accumulated over the years, and a few new ones, surely. But who really mattered in this list? Who telephoned her? What numbers did she dial? If someone found our smartphone contacts today, wouldn't they see our favorites, reconstruct the history of our calls, read our texts and emails, listen to our messages? They would know our entires lives. This book of hers was silent as the grave. ~ Brigitte Benkemoun

Freedom of love is freedom to say yes to many lovers. ~ Brigitte Boisselier

She knows how to keep him interested in a thousand ways. And her peculiarity, her singularity may not always be easy for him to bear. But surely she has never bored him. Elle sait se faire désirer, but without pretenses. It is her way, and he is under her spell like a lover, and happy when he can touch her lightly to remind her of something! ~ Brigitte Hamann

[A translation into English of a poem Elisabeth wrote two weeks after her wedding]

Oh, had I but never left the path
That would have led me to freedom.
Oh, that on the broad avenues
Of vanity I had never strayed!

I have awakened in a dungeon,
With chains on my hands.
And my longing ever stronger-
And freedom! You, turned from me!

I have awakened from a rapture,
Which held my spirit captive,
And vainly do I curse this exchange,
In which I gambled away you -freedom!- away.

The Reluctant Empress, Chapter 2 ~ Brigitte Hamann

Who says I'm gonna marry another guy? In Europe it's not like in America, where you set a date. ~ Brigitte Nielsen