Best quotes by Brigitte Bardot

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

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

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

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

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

I really am a cat transformed into a woman.

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

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.

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

I wanted to be myself. Only myself.

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

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

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

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 say what I think and I think what I say.

Do you have to have a reason for loving?

There is a certain dignity to being French.

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

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

Success is unpredictable and fragile.

Only idiots refuse to change their minds.

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.

It is sad to grow old but nice to ripen.

I leave before being left. I decide.

I don't think when I make love.

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

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

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

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

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

I have the courage of my convictions.

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

The world today doesn't please me.

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

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

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

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 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.

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 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.

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

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

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

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

Nobody has any security in loving me.

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

What does it mean, being a woman?

Fame had brought me so much unhappiness.

[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 never do anything by chance.

You can be barefoot and have worries.

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

I never force myself to dance or sing.

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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

Was it me that Botticelli imagined?

No matter whether it's someone from the political left or right, we just need a voice to stand up and defend animal rights.

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.

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

I am greatly misunderstood by politically correct idiots.

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

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

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

I stopped making films to look after animals.

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

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

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

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