Brigitte Bardot quotes:

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

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

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 the courage of my convictions.

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.

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

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

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.

It is sad to grow old but nice to ripen.

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

People are forever finding something wrong with you.

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

It's better to be unfaithful than faithful without wanting to be.

I never do anything by chance.

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

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

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

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

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

Only idiots refuse to change their minds.

People have already dirtied my name too much.

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

I know what sin is.

What does it mean, being a woman?

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.

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

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

Do you have to have a reason for loving?

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 regret nothing.

The world today doesn't please me.

Percentages are why I am rich.

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

You can be barefoot and have worries.

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

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

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

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.

Was it me that Botticelli imagined?

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

I am greatly misunderstood by politically correct idiots.

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

I never knowingly wanted to hurt anybody.

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

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

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.

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.

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

I am against the Islamisation of France.

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.

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

I wanted to be myself. Only myself.

There is a certain dignity to being French.

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

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

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,

Fame had brought me so much unhappiness.

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

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

I leave before being left. I decide.

I don't think when I make love

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

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

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

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

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

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

I stopped making films to look after animals.

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

I really am a cat transformed into a woman.

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.

Nobody has any security in loving me.

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.

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

I am really not interested in the cinema.

I don't think I was a good comedian.

Death was like love, a romantic escape.

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

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

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

My private life became public.

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

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

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

The page has turned. Cinema is finished for me.

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