Best quotes by Brigitte Bardot

I only live in the world of animal protection. I speak only of that. I think only of that. I am obsessed.

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

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

If I upset some notions and went against established rules, that wasn't part of what I wanted to do. It wasn't my goal.

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

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

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

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

Death was like love, a romantic escape.

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

I am against marriage, and I don't give a fig for society.

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.

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

I can no longer walk. I can no longer swim. But I'm lucky when I see how animals suffer.

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

I am against the Islamisation of France!

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.

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

People are forever finding something wrong with you.

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

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

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.

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

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

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

I started out as a lousy actress and have remained one.

Peanut butter is pâté for children.

I am really not interested in the cinema.

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

Percentages are why I am rich.

I am leaving the town to the invaders: increasingly numerous, mediocre, dirty, badly behaved, shameless tourists.

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

My private life became public.

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

People have already dirtied my name too much.

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

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

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.

The page has turned. Cinema is finished for me.

I don't think I was a good comedian.