Brigitte Bardot Quotes

I stopped making films to look after animals.

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

There is a certain dignity to being French.

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

Death was like love, a romantic escape.

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.

I am really not interested in the cinema.

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

People are forever finding something wrong with you.

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

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

I never do anything by chance.

I have the courage of my convictions.

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

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

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

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

I never force myself to dance or sing.

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

Percentages are why I am rich.

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

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

Peanut butter is pâté for children.

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

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.

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