Brigitte Bardot Quotes

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

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.

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

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

I leave before being left. I decide.

I wanted to be myself. Only myself.

I have no regrets. If I wanted to keep acting, I would have never left the cinema.

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 didn't throw myself off my balcony only because I knew people would photograph me lying dead.

I really am a cat transformed into a woman.

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

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.

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

Do you have to have a reason for loving?

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

I never do anything by chance.

What does it mean, being a woman?

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.

It is sad to grow old but nice to ripen.

No more hard work than look beautiful with eight in the morning until midnight.

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.

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

I am really not interested in the cinema.

I have the courage of my convictions.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

I had lots of opportunities to survive this [popularity] madness. Madame de Staël said, "Glory is the bright mourning of happiness."

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Fame had brought me so much unhappiness.

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

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 am greatly misunderstood by politically correct idiots.

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.

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