Brigitte Bardot Quotes

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

— Brigitte Bardot

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

— Brigitte Bardot

“People are forever finding something wrong with you.”

— Brigitte Bardot

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

— Brigitte Bardot

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

— 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

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

— Brigitte Bardot

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

— Brigitte Bardot

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

— 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

“It is sad to grow old but nice to ripen.”

— Brigitte Bardot

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

— Brigitte Bardot

“Death was like love, a romantic escape.”

— 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

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

— 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

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

— 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

Nobody has any security in loving me.

— Brigitte Bardot

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

— Brigitte Bardot

“There is a certain dignity to being French.”

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

— Brigitte Bardot

“I wanted to be myself. Only myself.”

— Brigitte Bardot

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

— 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'm not an extremist, you know.”

— Brigitte Bardot

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

— Brigitte Bardot

“I never do anything by chance.”

— Brigitte Bardot

I don't think when I make love.

— 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

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

— Brigitte Bardot

“I don't think I was a good comedian.”

— Brigitte Bardot

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

— Brigitte Bardot

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

— Brigitte Bardot

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

— Brigitte Bardot

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

— Brigitte Bardot

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

— Brigitte Bardot

People have already dirtied my name too much.

— 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

“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

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

— Brigitte Bardot

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

— 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

“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

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

— Brigitte Bardot

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

— Brigitte Bardot

“The page has turned. Cinema is finished for me.”

— 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

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

— Brigitte Bardot