Brigitte Bardot Quotes

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

Human cruelty knows no limits and that 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.

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

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

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

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

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

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'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.

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

Do you have to have a reason for loving?

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

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

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

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

It is sad to grow old but nice to ripen.

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 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

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

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

I really am a cat transformed into a woman.

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

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

Was it me that Botticelli imagined?

Only idiots refuse to change their minds.

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

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.

I leave before being left. I decide.

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

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

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

I don't think when I make love.

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.

The world today doesn't please me.

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

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.

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

I wanted to be myself. Only myself.

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

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.

What does it mean, being a woman?

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

Fame had brought me so much unhappiness.

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

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

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

You can be barefoot and have worries.

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

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