Top 156 Quotes & Sayings by Brigitte Bardot

Explore popular quotes and sayings by a French actress Brigitte Bardot.
Last updated on September 17, 2024.
Brigitte Bardot

Brigitte Anne-Marie Bardot, often referred to by her initials B.B., is a French former actress, singer and model. Famous for portraying sexually emancipated characters with hedonistic lifestyles, she was one of the best known sex symbols of the late 1950s and 1960s. Although she withdrew from the entertainment industry in 1973, she remains a major popular culture icon.

Fame had brought me so much unhappiness.
The woman who made those movies, that's not me. She's someone else.
I have understood that the most important things are tenderness and kindness. I can't do without them. — © Brigitte Bardot
I have understood that the most important things are tenderness and kindness. I can't do without them.
It is better to be unfaithful than to be faithful without wanting to be.
I am no mother, and I won't be one.
A photograph can be an instant of life captured for eternity that will never cease looking back at you.
I have no private life at all. I am a hunted woman. I can't take a step without being questioned and surrounded.
I have been very happy, very rich, very beautiful, much adulated, very famous and very unhappy.
If I go to a restaurant, other people stare. The meal is ruined.
I belong to no party, and I am militant for no one.
I am not an actress. I can only play me - on and off the screen.
Women get more unhappy the more they try to liberate themselves.
Percentages are why I am rich. — © Brigitte Bardot
Percentages are why I am rich.
We must boycott fur coats as well as all the accessories.
I was afraid of not living up to what people expected me to be.
I left a world in which I was a queen to enter one in which I'm a human being.
I am 30, but there are things about me that are still 15.
I only want to protect animals from barbarous, cruel, inhuman and backward rituals.
I really wanted to die at certain periods in my life.
No matter whether it's someone from the political left or right, we just need a voice to stand up and defend animal rights.
What does it mean, being a woman?
I know very few Americans, though I like the way they think. They think big.
I say what I think and I think what I say.
I gave my beauty and my youth to men. I am going to give my wisdom and experience to animals.
They may call me a sinner, but I am at peace with myself.
Only idiots refuse to change their minds.
If this fame, which people call my lucky break, were to stop tomorrow, I shouldn't care.
We have abolished the death penalty for humans, so why should it continue for animals?
I leave before being left. I decide.
My favourite animals are dogs.
I absolutely loathe luxury. It is the one thing I cannot stand.
When I love, I do it without counting. I give myself entirely. And each time, it is the grand love of my life.
Swallows have disappeared, bees are dying out because of pesticides that should have been banned long ago - it's a scandal.
People are forever finding something wrong with you.
I have the courage of my convictions.
French courts are backward and politically correct, which is the height of stupidity.
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 against marriage, and I don't give a fig for society. — © Brigitte Bardot
I am against marriage, and I don't give a fig for society.
Men are beasts and even beasts don't behave as they do.
Vadim was both my teacher and my husband. I placed myself entirely in his hands.
I am shocking, impertinent and insolent that's how it is.
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.
Now, if there was one woman in the world who didn't need publicity, who always had too much publicity, it was me.
It is sad to grow old but nice to ripen.
Every age can be enchanting, provided you live within it.
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 never do anything by chance.
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
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.
Yes, I've often been threatened by hunters, by horsemeat butchers, and seal murderers... I am still alive!
It's better to be unfaithful than faithful without wanting to be.
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.
My soul is not my own any more. I cannot live like I want to. I am going to give up films.
I started out as a lousy actress and have remained one.
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.
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.
Do you have to have a reason for loving?
My wild and free side unsettled some, and unwedged others.
I am greatly misunderstood by politically correct idiots.
You can be barefoot and have worries.
I mourn the fact that my beautiful country has deteriorated in every way.
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