Brigitte Bardot Quotes

I think animals help us live; they've helped me live. It was only when I began to devote myself to protecting animals that I blossomed completely. Taking care of them, looking out for them, has given my life true meaning, a meaning I hope future generations can experience.

I never force myself to dance or sing.

Peanut butter is pâté for children.

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

You can be barefoot and have worries.

Solitude scares me. It makes me think about love, death, and war. I need distraction from anxious, black thoughts.

I don't think when I make love.

Fashion may not be a weapon of the woman but at least it gives her the ammunition.

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

Was it me that Botticelli imagined?

I am against the Islamisation of France!

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

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

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

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

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.

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

Success is unpredictable and fragile.

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

People are forever finding something wrong with you.

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

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

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

Nobody has any security in loving me.

Death was like love, a romantic escape.

I don't think I was a good comedian.

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

The world today doesn't please me.

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

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

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

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

Percentages are why I am rich.

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.

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

[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.

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

There is a certain dignity to being French.

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

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

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

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

I stopped making films to look after animals.

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

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

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

People have already dirtied my name too much.

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.