Brigitte Bardot famous quotes

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

#Beautiful #Unhappy #Rich

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

#Birthday #Beauty #Life Changing

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

#Beauty #Animal #Men

What could be more beautiful than a dear old lady growing wise with age? Every age can be enchanting, provided you live within it.
-- Brigitte Bardot

#Birthday #Beautiful #Wise

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

#Love #Cute Love #Reason

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

#Girl #Good Day #One Day

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

#Grateful #Parent #Suffering

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

#Kindness #Important #Understood

I am greatly misunderstood by politically correct idiots.
-- Brigitte Bardot

#Misunderstood #Idiot #Politically Correct

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

#Photography #Brother #Photographer

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

#Animal #Careers #Betrayed

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

#Enough #Thirty #Young

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

#Inspirational #Life #Sad

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.
-- Brigitte Bardot

#Years #Cinema #Six

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

#Love Of My Life #Giving #Counting

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

#Funny #Faith #Sexy

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

#Animal #Rights #Voice

I leave before being left. I decide.
-- Brigitte Bardot

Only idiots refuse to change their minds.
-- Brigitte Bardot

#Mind #Idiot #Refuse

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

#Stills

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

#Giving #Figs

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

#Cameras #Growing #Good Marriage

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

#Acting #Littles #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.
-- Brigitte Bardot

#Made #Before I Die

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

#Thinking #Comedian

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

#Law #Decision #Able

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

#Cinema #Not Interested

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

#Giving Up #Soul #Want

My private life became public.
-- Brigitte Bardot

#Private Life

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

#Play #Actresses

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

#People #Meals #Restaurants

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

#Dirty #Night #Naughty

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

#Periods #Certain #Wanted To Die

You can be barefoot and have worries.
-- Brigitte Bardot

#Worry #Barefoot

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

#Ukulele #Actresses

Death was like love, a romantic escape.
-- Brigitte Bardot

#Romantic Love

Nobody has any security in loving me.
-- Brigitte Bardot

#Security

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

#Important #Easier #Found

Peanut butter is pâté for children.
-- Brigitte Bardot

#Children #Peanut Butter #Peanuts

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

#People

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

#Stars #Loneliness #Reality

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

#Men #Mind #Special

I have not always loved wisely, but I was young.
-- Brigitte Bardot

#Young

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

#People #Expected

The world today doesn't please me.
-- Brigitte Bardot

#World #Today #Please

I stopped making films to look after animals.
-- Brigitte Bardot

#Animal #Looks #Film

I wanted to be myself. Only myself.
-- Brigitte Bardot

#Wanted

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.
-- Brigitte Bardot

#Would Be #World #Being The Best

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

#Mean #Doe #Being A Woman

People have already dirtied my name too much.
-- Brigitte Bardot

#Names #People #Too Much

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

#Animal #Want #Protect

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

#Thinking #Way #Think Big

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

#Dog #Children #People

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

#Teacher #Husband #Hands

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

#Thinking #Very Good

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

#Film #Expected

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

#Two #Kind #Film

I am against the Islamisation of France.
-- Brigitte Bardot

#France

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

#Pregnancy #Joy #Way

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

#Steps #Private Life