Brigitte Bardot

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

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

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

Percentages are why I am rich.

I know what sin is.

Death was like love, a romantic escape.

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

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

I'm not an extremist, you know.

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

Politics disgusts me.

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.

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

It is sad to grow old but nice to ripen.

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

I have the courage of my convictions.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

People have already dirtied my name too much.

I regret nothing.

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

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

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

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

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

Every age can be enchanting provided you live within it.

We must boycott fur coats as well as all the accessories.

I don't think when I make love.

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

I stopped making films to look after animals.

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

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

There is a certain dignity to being French.

People are forever finding something wrong with you.

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

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

I don't think I was a good comedian.

Only idiots refuse to change their minds.

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

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

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

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.

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

Fur is only of use to the animal that wears it.

I belong to no party, and I am militant for no one.

I don't feel old or used up, and I don't have time to waste thinking about aging, because I live only for my cause.

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

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

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 am against the Islamisation of France.

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 never do anything by chance.

My private life became public.

I am really not interested in the cinema.

You can be barefoot and have worries.

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

I am greatly misunderstood by politically correct idiots.

I am not finding pregnancy much of a joy. I am afraid of childbirth but I am afraid I cant find a way of avoiding it.

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

Fame had brought me so much unhappiness.

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

The world today doesn't please me.

I live the life of a farmer. I don't see how I could wear Lagerfeld's designs while feeding my goats. I have respect for Lagerfeld as a man, but I would have so much more for him if he, in turn, respected animals. We do not live in the same world.

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

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

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

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

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

I wanted to be myself. Only myself.

What does it mean, being a woman?

I am typically French.

I never knowingly wanted to hurt anybody.

Do you have to have a reason for loving?

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

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

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.

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 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.

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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