Top 156 Quotes & Sayings by Brigitte Bardot - Page 3

I know it's horrible to have to admit that, but I'm not adult enough to take care of a child.

I don't see how a socialist government can tolerate hunting on horseback. The people who do this are snobs; they're very well-to-do.

I'm not made to be a mother.

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.

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

Peanut butter is pâté for children.

Was it me that Botticelli imagined?

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

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

Success is unpredictable and fragile.

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.

I have never put a gun to anyone's head to obligate him to marry me.

I am against the Islamisation of France!

I really wanted to die at certain periods in my life. Death was like love, a romantic escape. I took pills because I didn't want to throw myself off my balcony and know people would photograph me lying dead below

The first time that I came to Cannes, I think it was in 1953, I was 18 and unknown.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

I really am a cat transformed into a woman.

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

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

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

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

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

I never force myself to dance or sing.

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

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

Unfortunately, I am not like a snail or a turtle, and I can't take my houses with me when I move.

The page has turned. Cinema is finished for me.