Brigitte Bardot's Quotes

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

I am against the Islamisation of France.

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

I don't think when I make love.

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

I know what sin is.

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

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

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.

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 only every man who sees my films did not get the impression he can make love to me, I would be a lot happier.

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

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

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

What does it mean, being a woman?

You can be barefoot and have worries.

Fame had brought me so much unhappiness.

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

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

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

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.

I am really not interested in the cinema.

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.

I am typically French.

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

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 I was a good comedian.

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

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

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

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

I regret nothing.

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

I stopped making films to look after 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.

I wanted to be myself. Only myself.

I'm not an extremist, you know.

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

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

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

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

My private life became public.

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

People are forever finding something wrong with you.

People have already dirtied my name too much.

Politics disgusts me.

The world today doesn't please me.

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

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.

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.

Do you have to have a reason for loving?

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

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

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 sad to grow old but nice to ripen.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

I leave before being left. I decide.

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

I am greatly misunderstood by politically correct idiots.

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

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.

I have the courage of my convictions.

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

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

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

There is a certain dignity to being French.

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