Brigitte Bardot Quotes & Sayings

I never knowingly wanted to hurt anybody. — Brigitte Bardot

It is sad to grow old but nice to ripen. — Brigitte Bardot

It is better to be unfaithful than to be faithful without wanting to be. — Brigitte Bardot

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

I have the courage of my convictions. — Brigitte Bardot

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

[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

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

Only idiots refuse to change their minds. — Brigitte Bardot

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

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

I'm not an extremist, you know. — Brigitte Bardot

People are forever finding something wrong with you. — Brigitte Bardot

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

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

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

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

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

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

The first time that I came to Cannes, I think it was in 1953, I was 18 and unknown. — 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 really wanted to die at certain periods in my life. — Brigitte Bardot

Films have never shown the kind of relationship that can exist between two women. — 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 wanted to be myself. Only myself. — Brigitte Bardot

Success is unpredictable and fragile. — 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 a woman that defends animals, right, left, and in the centre. Animals aren't political. — 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

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

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

Was it me that Botticelli imagined? — Brigitte Bardot

When you're thirty you're old enough to know better,but still young enough to go ahead and do it. — 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 didn't throw myself off my balcony only because I knew people would photograph me lying dead. — Brigitte Bardot

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

My private life became public. — Brigitte Bardot

I am against the Islamisation of France. — Brigitte Bardot

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

Percentages are why I am rich. — Brigitte Bardot

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

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

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

I am really not interested in the cinema. — Brigitte Bardot

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

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

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

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

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

I was afraid of not living up to what people expected me to be. — 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 know very few Americans, though I like the way they think. They think big. — Brigitte Bardot

Fame had brought me so much unhappiness. — 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

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

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 never get hung up on the past - the memories are too negative. — Brigitte Bardot

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

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

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

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

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

People have already dirtied my name too much. — 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

Do you have to have a reason for loving? — Brigitte Bardot

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

The world today doesn't please me. — 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 have not always loved wisely, but I was young. — Brigitte Bardot

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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. — Brigitte Bardot

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

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

You can be barefoot and have worries. — Brigitte Bardot

I never do anything by chance. — Brigitte Bardot

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. — Brigitte Bardot

Nobody has any security in loving me. — Brigitte Bardot

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

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